Last week I took a trip out of town with one of my bestest buddies to take photos around one of the cave sites close to where we live.
I had been to Wombeayn Caves back in 2003 when I went on Year 9 camp there - 3 days of bushwalks and caves! It was the first time I had ever visited a cave and even went caving, which was awesome fun!
Coming back in 2012 just served to remind me how beautiful the area is. Especially with the amount of water that has been falling of late. When I went back in '03 the drought was on-going and I definitely do not remember it being as damp and green as it was when I visited the other week.
My friend and I decided to take a self-guided tour through 'Fig Tree Cave' - which is set up with automated lights and information points where features of the cave are explained and shown. I had been in Fig Tree back in '03, but descending down the narrow stairs into darkness in '12 caused me to really have a wussy moment and best buddy came to the rescue by volunteering to walk first!
It really got me thinking. Am I getting more wussy as I get older? I've never had problems going in to caves, dark places, or even cramped spaces before (heights are another matter though!), so why now? Is my adult sense of self-preservation finally deciding to come to play now that I'm well and truly past my teen years?
Maybe I just need to get out of my comfort zone a lot more...
Anyways, managed to snap some really lovely pics using a DSLR for the first time - haven't managed to upload them to the laptop yet though. I think I took around 160 pics, but I know a lot of them are probably blurred, out of focus, overexposed, underexposed, etc, so that's something to practice with this year!
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