I have been to Cheddar Gorge a couple of times and was impressed. It’s not amazing to everyone but the geology is quite spectacular to me. Plenty of stalactites and stalagmites to appreciate.

Also, in 1903 Britain’s oldest complete skeleton was discovered there dating to around 9,000 year old they say. A cave painting of a mammoth is also visible in one of the smaller alcove caves within the site. So to know the cave has also had ancient human habitation makes it even more interesting.

They had some crafty colourful lighting throughout so the pools of water had an other worldly quality to them and worked well for photos.

Even just with the regular lighting great shadows were cast across the strange calcified rocks.

All in all it was an enjoyable day out and reminds of just how much history and geology is lying around or could be hidden just beneath our feet.

(c) K Wicks