Lawrence Welk Caves

       A bunch of sloppy cell phone pictures of the underground hidden caves in Escondido, California. The Lawrence Welk Caves are talus caves, which means they are formed by the spaces between large boulders. Water has washed out the soil between the boulders and left some spaces that form the "caves". These caves were intimidating at times because the entrance holes to some were just big enough to squeeze through. It's very claustrophobic and kind of scary getting into the caves, and you have dirt pouring down on you from above which is like being buried alive. Although i had the fear of getting lost in this vast underground area there is a bunch of yarn that runs down from the entrance to the bottom of the cave which gave me assurance. At one point we were more than 50 feet underground and eventually found a small stream of running water through one of the caves. We did not make it through the whole stretch of caves; we'll have to come back one day soon to finish it.