The walk to reach the Bear Cave was along a path bordered by streams. Beautiful both to look at and listen to.
"Cave"The cave was beautiful but photos weren't permitted. Ela and I went on the tour while Ula and Stanley enjoyed the sunshine outside. I think one of my favourite things was watching the bats fly around, some swooping within inches of my head. I loved hearing the whispering flutter as they flitted past and seeing them in silhouette as they flew down the passageways. I later told Ula about them and she shuddered - I asked her if she would have been screaming if she had been with us and she looked at me like I was crazy and exclaimed, "Yes!"
Lunch was delicious! We ate outside on the patio of the empty restaurant (it's more of a small resort in the country and this is still low season). Each of us were served a whole trout with sides of about five different salads, including pickled cabbage and greens with a garlic cream sauce.
Ula, normally addicted to formal attire but pulled on the jeans for our hike.
A tradition is to lean a stick or log against the underside of the rocks to "keep them from falling down the hill". Sort of a good-luck thing.
That little person at the top is me!I cheated... there's a flight of steps up the other side of the rocks, though I did have to scramble over a railing and up some rocks to reach the top.
Down the middle of this deep crack is a rock stairway (covered in snow and ice during our visit) with a chain railing to allow visitors to descend into "Satan's Kitchen" (the Polish language indicates a feminine form of "Satan"). In this long chasm there was still plenty of snow and ice - we were far from equipped for walking on it but we slipped and slided and survived our trip through "hell".
A pile of snow begs for an imprint so I lay back against it - too crunchy to make a snow angel, but we still called it my "angel in hell".
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I love this last photo of a tree. Is it a "nurse-maid" tree? One tree growing out of another? Or just a strangely shaped tree?
I think the tree was just an odd shape - it was beyond the fence so I didn't get any closer and didn't really look carefully. It's on the edge of a cliff, so it's likely been battered a lot.
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