This time we went to the Flint Mountain reserve, where the remains of the Chessboard Cave can be found (a while ago there was a quarry there that split the cave into several pieces: a bigger one, a smaller one, and several tiny ones). Its exploitation ended in 1962, so that the quarry itself is much overgrown now - it's a very nice place for a picnic, for instance. Unfortunately, the cave (One) was widened by the mining of flint, so that ceiling doesn't look very stable - it can get dangerous.

The caves themselves (One and Two) make up a true labyrinth of crisscrossing passages (right, I think that the name Labyrinth would me more appropriate than Chessboard). Although the horizontal extent of the cave is not that great (about 70-80 meters), we spent there over 4 hours - we had to, of course, crawl into every side passage that we found. After all, the total length of all passages sums up to over 600 meters...

The Eastern part of One is more shattered and full of rubble, the Western part, similar to Two, is much prettier (IMO), and consists of beautifully washed tunnels. We found some small rosebuds that pleasantly surprised us (see the pictures - we didn't except any formations here due to the dynamic history) as well as water corals on tree roots (similar to those in Coral Cave). Unfortunately, access to the cave is very easy, which means, that you can find a lot of garbage there: cans, bottles, papers, etc. So we performed a good deed and cleaned all that up a bit.