Apostle Islands Ice Caves~ Awesome Experience!!!

I would recommend going if you're ever in the area in the months of January through early March. It's a really beautiful and fun experience. We'll definately be making a day trip of it again next year, so feel free to come join us!!!!

Just A Few More....

Just around the corner......
.....were several of these enormous waterfall looking ice walls. Truly amazing to look at.

Back view of 1 of the frozen waterfalls.

Breathtakingly beautiful.....

More Apostle Island Ice Caves

Definately one of my favorite pics. The ice here froze so clear, it actually looked like running water. It was, yet again, just beautiful.

Climbing into a cave that held a special treat for us to see......

........the most tiny and intricate icicles. They were everywhere inside this cave.

It was so hard( even for us adults) not to touch them. They were just begging to be touched but we decided we were going to leave "no trace" that we were there so that others could enjoy these tiny little wonders. They were so small, they appeared that they would just crumble if you touched them. I had to zoom in quite alot to get even this amount of detail. I was wishing I had a better camera, but these pics are nice too.

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We loved looking at the rock. There's so many layers and it looks beautiful. This pic dosn't do it justice at all. It offered a great opportunity to teach and converse with the kids about the different kinds of rock and stone.

Haley kept climbing up this very slippery piece of ice to hold on to the rock and then she would try to move her way off of it, just holding on to the rock and trying to get in a spiderman pose with her hands and feet. I guess she was practicing for this summer's many rockclimbing ventures. She was so funny and kept saying,"I sure do wish we had ropes and a harness. We could totally climb this and Case!!! You could belay me back down!!!"

I can't believe how beautiful ice can be!!! We stayed a safer distance away from some of these ones though as there was evidence that some of these enormous chunks had fallen. You wouldn't want to be under one of them if it did fall.....