This cave is at Undara,

a short walk from our bus.

The cave is nice and cool —

outside it’s 40 plus!

Forty thousand bats

call these caves their home,

and when the sun goes down,

the bats fly out to roam. 

But when they do — watch out!

There’s danger in the night:

snakes jump out from trees

and catch them in mid-flight.

The moral of the story?

See lava caves by day!

And keep the bats and snakes

well out of your way.

Undara Lava Tubes, North Queensland. Photo by Ginette Pestana