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As you glide silently over the quiet waters of Myst'ry River in a custom boat tour, the natural wonders of this subterranean world pass before your eyes. |
See rare blind fish and crayfish living in a world of perpetual darkness... where they developed eons ago and thrive yet today. On-board electric lighting suggests the adventure of early explorations as passages carved by endlessly-flowing waters are revealed. Your imagination will be stirred by the power and majesty which remained, for so long, unknown to man.
Many thousands of years ago the White River, today flowing only a short walk from the entrances to Bluespring Caverns, had cut its way deeply into the soluble limestone that now envelope the cave. The rapid deepening of the river left surface streams flowing high above on the flat plain. Surface water found its way into small cracks or joints in the limestone rock and slowly dissolved it, forming cave passages enroute to the river.
Time passed and the passages enlarged to become a complex system of underground streams in high, vaulted passages. Eventually, these underground streams found their way down to a level near that of the White River, then flowing in a steep-walled canyon.
Then came in cold and ice. Glaciers from the north slowly pushed down into Indiana, carrying soil and rock before them. As these great masses of ice began melting, the accumulated debris was carried to the surface streams. The deep canyon of the White River and the great caverns nearby were filled with these glacial sediments to depths of over fifty feet.
In the warmer climate after the glaciers retreated, streams in the caves and the White River itself began again the neverending effort to reach the level of the sea. Bluespring Caverns gradually enlarged as the free-flowing streams cut their way into or around the glacial debris. In the early 1940's, a large pond on the George Colglazier farm disappeared overnight in a heavy rain to reveal the entrance which is used today. This new access to the cave opened the way for young explorers to discover and perhaps understand the great forces of water and ice whose works were preserved in the slowly-changing world below. These evidences of the works of nature can yet be seen by the observant visitor. Our knowledgeable guides will help you experience the past in the present.
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