Enjoy beauty, nature of Dunbar Cave
By STACY SMITH SEGOVIA
The Leaf-Chronicle
Clarksville, TN
People who step into the dark, cool recesses of Dunbar Cave step into a time that predates recorded history.
Prehistoric cave drawings were found in Dunbar Cave in January 2005. Pam Seay was in the first group to tour the cave after the drawings' existence was announced to the public in 2006.
"I think it's so fascinating," Seay says. "One drawing is a star shape, another is a comet, another is a mythical man creature lying down with claws and a headdress with a hatchet coming out of it."
Seay took her daughter, Katie Dombert, and her friend, Peter Goodwin, who were visiting Clarksville from Auburn, Ala., last weekend, on Dunbar Cave's first cave hikes of 2007. The hikes resume 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. March 17, 18 and 31, and continue 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday in April and May.
Because they were on the first tours of the season, Seay and her out-of-town guests saw something unusual.
"There were still some hibernating bats. I have never seen a bat in the cave before," says Seay, who hikes Dunbar Cave three or four times a year. "We could see them clinging to the wall of the cave."
Friends of Dunbar Cave's Web site, http://www.dunbarcave.org, explains that there are "no cave hikes in December, January and February so that the bats can hibernate in peace."
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