Hey kids we are out in
the middle of the Ohio River,
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right between two states.
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We've got 1 foot in one
and 1 foot in the other.
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There's Kentucky that
away and Illinois that away.
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And the best part is
down the river, up the river
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whatever, it's
one of those caves.
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You can see Cave in the
Rocks and there's a place called
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Cave-In Rock.
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There is some fantastic tall
tales told about that place.
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I'm going in, I
hope you are not scared.
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Don't even know what I
would find in there, could be
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Pirates, could be treasure,
could be most anything.
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So are you up to some
adventure this afternoon?
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Hey, come on with me
were almost on the far shore.
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Let's go!
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Hey guys, I want to tell
you the story about the river
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Pirates on this
stretch of river.
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You can look out
and see all the way up
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and down the river.
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Well back in the old
days, way, way old days, in fact
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I think it was around
the Revolutionary war time.
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There used to be real
pirates on this river,
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can you believe it?
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Do you believe
in real pirates? No!
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I used to think
pirates were not real either.
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I used to think they were
fiction but I found out later
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they are, they were real.
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What these guys would do,
pirates are people that rob
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other people and sometimes
they do even worse than rob,
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sometimes they even kill them
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just to get their stuff.
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So what these guys do, I
have heard, is hang out in this
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cave down here, they
wouldn't just say, come in here
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this is a pirate cave.
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How do you think
they would lure them in?
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How? - drag them. - drag
them, yet they could have
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done that. Well I heard
tale what they would do is put
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a sign out there that says,
eats and drinks and comfort.
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Come on in here and take a rest.
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The people believed it,
they believed what they saw on
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the outside of the cave and
they will go in to get a meal,
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or lay down for the night.
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They would make them feel
all cozy and cook a good meal
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for them and then in the
middle of the night, when they
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were sleeping, they would
get up and rob them blind,
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they had not a thing.
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I heard that the next town
down there was a house that if
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they got away from here, they
would stop there for safety.
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Guess what? It's the same
gang, same gang of pirates
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that ran this cave,
ran that went down there.
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So if they escaped from one,
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they got
snagged in the next one.
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If you guys are ready
I'm putting on my pirate hat.
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I am heading down to the river
to lurk with the Pirates and see
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what kind of golden
treasure we can find.
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Come on, let's go guys.
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Can I help you
down? Can you jump?
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Whew, oh it is cool,
doesn't it feel good?
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Good on a summer afternoon.
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Come on girls, let's go see.
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Ah, it's feeling
better and better.
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The closer you get in
here the cooler it gets.
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I want to climb don't you?
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Oh yeah, come on. Let's go.
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It does. Oh yep.
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Wow! Do you suppose
they had fires in here?
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Come on girls.
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Whoa! Look up over your head's.
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Oh, isn't that cool?
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Then up here it gets
even more interesting.
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There is more rooms.
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We're standing in the
middle of a light shaft.
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Look up over your heads.
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Isn't that cool? It
goes clear up to the ground.
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I guess water over the years
eroded that and washed all those
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rocks away, so now if
you had really long legs
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you can get out of
here if you had to. Huh?
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Look up on the ceiling
over there, did you notice when
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we came in all
the names on the roof?
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Yeah. - how do you
suppose they got up there?
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Do you know?
Climbed, they could have.
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Could you climb up
in the middle of there?
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No. - I couldn't either.
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I was thinking they might
have got a really long ladder,
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but I don't think
they could have carried it
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on the rocks either.
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The Lady up at the
gift shop told me that what
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they actually did was when
the river rose, the water would
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come up higher and higher
and back in the cave back here.
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Then they would come in a
little boat and stand up in the
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boat and paint their name
so everybody would know that
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they have been here.
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Now back in this part, I
think is probably where the real
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nitty-gritty of
pirate work went on.
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What do you
suppose the Pirates did?
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They took from
people. - they did.
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What about if you guys
are the people, and I'm going
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to be the pirate.
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Okay, you guys campout
here, and you don't have a clue
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that I am here.
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Guess what? That
pirate would come out.
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Looking, looking, and
there I get ya and I will carry
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you off my lair.
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Just like that.
Kicking and screaming, huh?
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Well Pirates
really were pretty scary.
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But you're not scary. - I'm not!
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I tried my best to
be scary as I could be.
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Well the thing about pirates
is that you can never tell
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what they are up to.
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Even though they look
like they are just having fun
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and a good place to
rest, you never can tell
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what you see on the surface.
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We are back, way,
way back furtherest
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reaches of this cave.
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Boy, you can even
see a bird flying in.
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It's kind of creepy back
here, very dark and there is
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mud on the floor.
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It's really sticky, can
you hold your shoe up here?
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Show how dirty it is, yuck.
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I know, it makes
you stick to the floor.
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But hey guys, come with me
I want to show you something
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up here a little farther up.
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I think I found a
fire pit where they used
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to cook their dinners.
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What do you
think this looks like?
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Does this look like it? - yeah.
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Do you think you can
find any food scraps in there?
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Any coals or anything left?
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It was a long, long
time ago they were in here.
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I don't think we have
many Pirates left today.
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Maybe they are just
called by another name.
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Alright, let's head on out.
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It looks like
popsicles. - popsicles too?
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I'll tell you they had a real
primitive diet, didn't they?
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And sodas? And sodas I know.
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You know I think those
must be the descendents of the
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Pirates left out.
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What did you
like about it in here?
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You find any bones? - no!
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No, not really, we
found some outside though but
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they were Fish
bone's. Yeah it was muddy.
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Well one thing I want you
to remember about this pirate
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cave is that things are not
always the same on the inside
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as they are on the outside.
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Sometimes you can get
fooled, you have to watch and be
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wary, whoa!
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Well kids, I hope
you had as good a time
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in here as we did.
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Why don't you get out
your paper and your pencil and
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get ready to
take down my address.
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We are going to head back
and I'm going to do a little
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heart to heart
talking with you in a minute.
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But until then why don't
you get ready to write down my
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address so I can get your
letter in the mail real soon.
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Alright? Tally
Ho! See you in a bit.
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Hey kids Graham Joyce
would love to hear from you.
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So why not sit down
and write her a letter?
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Like every grandma
she loves to get pictures,
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drawings or
anything else you send her.
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Just write to:
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So what are you
waiting for? Write her today.
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So, when is the last
time you visited a cave?
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They're really fun
and can be so interesting.
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Next time you are on
vacation, maybe your family can
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plan an excursion to one or
two caves close to your route.
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Part of fun is seeing
how different one cave
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is from another.
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Up at Mount Rainier, if you
hike up higher than the lodge,
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there are ice caves.
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These are made with
glaciers ice melts in the
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summertime and rundown
little crevices in the ice.
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It melts more and
more ice on its way down.
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Eventually the running water
makes even more space under
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the ice and a cave forms
along sides of the stream.
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By the time it reaches
the edge of the glacier,
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it can be large enough for
lots of people to go inside.
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Even hike up a
long tunnel for maybe
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a quarter of a mile or more.
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It is so beautiful
inside of an ice cave, it's blue
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and the light is so
soft that seems to come from
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every direction at once.
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But another kind of cave
I've seen is as different as it
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can be from the soft
blue light of ice caves.
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In Central Oregon there are
lava tube caves made centuries
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ago when some of the volcanoes
in the area were erupting.
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The hot lava would flow down
the mountainside and out over
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the valley floor.
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Well the lava on top would
cool first and turn to rock
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faster than the
stuff under the surface.
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And it would make a
tube of runny liquid like
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an underground river.
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Over time the middle would
be eroded by rainwater and then
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you would have a cave
running through the lava beds.
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These tubes run all over
the place, mostly near the
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surface and they are
lots of fun to follow.
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You just never know where
they will pop back up to the
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surface, kind of makes
you feel like a gopher playing
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in one of these.
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The rocks in this kind of
cave are really sharp and rough
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though, if you go exploring
in one of these you better
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wear sturdy
hiking boots and protect
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your knees and elbows.
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Then there are caves with
pillars of rock in strange
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formations, caves that are
a tight squeeze between slabs
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of rock, oww, I
do not like those.
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Caves that are holes in
the ground full of water,
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and sometimes
people go scuba diving.
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There are caves for
bats live and caves where
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glowworms glow.
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Wow! everyone is different
and just begs to be explored.
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But you know as we started
our adventure today with the
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cave and the river bank where
Pirates lurked for the unwary.
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These days we don't
hear so much about pirates,
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but there still are some
around doing their dastardly
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deeds on the high
seas, over around Somalia and
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some other remote places.
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I have been trying to think
of what I really want to say
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about caves and
Pirates and stuff.
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How I can help you to see
something important out of all
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this, it's just that I
want you to think a little more
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about grown-up things
than most kids your age do.
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But I know how intelligent
you are, and I know you like
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to ponder on deep things.
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And I know that your thoughts
go much deeper than many
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people would
give you credit for.
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I want you to think
about your character today.
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What kind of person do
you want to be tomorrow?
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Just like all the caves
talked about have a different
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character from each
other, well so do people.
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Some good deep underground,
some run around all over the
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surface, some are full of
beautiful light, and some are
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cold and dark and wet.
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You kids are very important
people because soon you will
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be the teachers, doctors,
firemen, plumbers, citizens and
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leaders who are going to
be in charge of the world.
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How you going to
change the world?
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Yes you, every single
person alive changes the world
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in some way, you
just can't help it.
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The thing is how are
you going to change it?
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It's not too early to
start thinking about that.
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Because even this very minute
you are changing the world
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by just being in it.
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It's called influence, and
everybody has some, even people
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who think they don't.
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Your influence comes from
things you think about, and the
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things you say and do.
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Well your influence
is kind of like gravity.
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You know how that works right?
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Which has more influence,
or more gravity, if I had
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a ping-pong ball and a
ball bearing, which one would be
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heavier? The ball bearing right?
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It is the same with your
character or your influence.
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The more important and
substantial your thoughts and
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aspirations, the more
weight they carry and the more
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they influence
people around you.
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Well which has more
influence on our earth?
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Is it the sun or the
moon? You could always tell by
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which one goes around the other.
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Our earth goes around the
sun because the sun has more
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gravity, more pull.
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The moon goes around us
because we have more gravity
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than it does, but one in
the middle is the one who has
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the most influence
and that is where God is.
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Everything revolves around
Him, but we have our sphere of
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influence too and the more
you thoughts are like God's
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thoughts, the more they will
attract other people to Him.
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When I talked to you in a
little heart-to-heart chats
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like this, I am using
my influence to change
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the world through you.
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I want you to be inspired,
challenged, prepared for
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everything God wants you to be.
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Don't be satisfied
with low achievements,
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reach for the stars.
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Remember God will help you
because this is His purpose
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for you and He has promised.
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I love you and God
loves you even more.
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