Jewel Cave in 2003
The Jewel Cave near Margaret River is a spectacular cavern filled with some beautiful cave formations. The most notable is the “table” floating above the water.
The only way to see the inside of the cave is a guided tour. To get to the start point of the guided tour, you’d better be prepared for some stairs, lots of stairs. The stairs weren’t so bad going down into the cave, but just think about when the tour is over and you have to climb all those steps to get back up to civilisation.
Anyway, the tour will take you into the cave where the tour guide gives you a history on caves in the area. They even turn off the lights for a moment to show you how dark it gets. That was pretty spooky, you can wave your hand madly in front of your face and wouldn’t get a glimpse of anything.
At the deepest point of the cave, and near the end of your tour, there’s a bench where we could sit while the tour guides turn off the lights and put on a beautiful light show. That was really spectacular, very magical.
We couldn’t get very good photos in the cave, as you would expect. There’s not much light and flashes, in general, ruins the photos, unless you have a professional flash. The photo below was taken from tourist site with information about the Jewel Cave.
