02 - Sonora Caverns, TX

Sonora Caverns - last Texas stop!

The Sonora Caverns are about 200 miles West of Fredericksburg.  Our neighbor, Louise, a geologist and caver suggested we should stop by. We arrived just as the last cave tour was about to start but since we had not set up the rv for the night, we decided to take our time setting up and do the tour in the morning.  The camping area was quite different from the KOA we had just come from but it did have water and power, so that is good enough for us! Only one other motorhome was in the campground. Judging from the looks of things it appeared to us the wandering guinea fowl saw more action than the camp ground parking lot! 


(sidenote: as boisterous as they are, the guinea fowl do serve a purpose at this site, there are no snakes, fleas or ticks because of them remarked a park ranger, they also will "inform" the staff if anyone drives up to the campground)


This trip has transformed our mostly indoor dog, Catalina, into an outdoorsy one. She just cannot get enough of sitting outside, beside, or underneath the rv, (her stealthy spot), quietly watching the world go by. The times we hear her bark is either from a dog she just had to have the last bark at, or the campsite cat with whom she JUST had to have words with! Sonora’s campground had more than the usual squirrels and cats, as sunset approached, deer roamed about 20' away from us. The ever so watchful quinea fowl left their presence known outside our trailer! One lonely peacock quietly sauntered the gift shop lawns while the Purple Martin birdhouse community was a feathery flurry. One web review of this area said there are over 400 species of birds to be seen! We however, came for the cave and as you see from the pictures they are very impressive.  Our tour consisted of only 3 people and the guide who spent over 2 hours with us and given the size of our group, we’re sure if we wanted more he would have given it to us.  As much as we enjoyed the tour, our next destination beaconed, so promptly after our tour we headed for the first time to New Mexico, destination: Las Cruces.