My grandparents, Marsie and Parsie, my family and I went to Marakoopa Caves on the 30th of March 2013. The caves were about an hours drive south of Devonport in Tasmania. My mum read Playing Beatie Bow to us in the car on the way there. When we arrived we had some bad news! All the bookings
for the one o’clock tour were taken. So Dad bought some tickets for the 3 o'clock tour and we went and had a picnic lunch near the old abandoned Mole Creek railway and station.
We went on the Cathedral and Glow worm Tour. It was 9 degrees in the cave so we rugged up and stuff like that. We saw the organ and the palm tree formations. The caves formed as water dripped through limestone and a river went through it. We saw stalagmites, stalactites, straws (the longest straw is 6 m long but that was in WA), shawls, and shields. The Cathedral cave was massive and my Dad got to sing in it. He sang an old sea shanty called Sea Fever. I felt cold.
After that we went to the glow worm cave and it looked like stars. The glow worms are larvae and live for 18 months. They turn into mosquito like things that don’t have mouths and the live for 3 days and mate, lay eggs and die. The glow is the burnt waste of the larvae and attracts other insects and the insects get trapped in their little web sort of strings hanging down.
My favourite formation was the organ.
The Organ
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