What Is Least Expected

Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts came upon a hole in the ground in the Arizona desert in 1974.What they really found was a lot more:it was a seven-acre wet ,or living ,'' cavern right there under the arid Arizona surface.Eventually Tufts and Tenen would discover rooms the size of football fields ,smaller chambers, and an underground lake.One of the cave's notable features is the second longest stalactite ever found:onequarter inch wide and 21 feet long! They never expected to find anything like this in their wildest dreams.The two kept the find a secret as long as possible.Eventually they contacted the owners.the owners sold the land to Arizona State Park system for the preservation of the caverns.