Kayaking is my favorite past time, and I did my first float of the year in a cave.
Springfield-Greene County Park Board opened its spring boat tours of Sequiota Cave for a couple of weekends in March, and the past couple of years have seen an added mode of transportation. In addition to the johnboats, kayaks were added just after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as another way to experience the cave.
Lead by our guide Jerome Brauner, my partner Trent Holloway and I joined a small group in gearing up. We brought our own head lamps to better illuminate the darkness, fitted ourselves with hard hats to protect our noggins and shrugged into life jackets before boarding our kayaks.