The Fontein Caves are a terrace of coral limestone pushed up from the ocean floor about 85 million years ago. Inside the Fontein Caves you can walk about 150 meters before you have to start crawling. They go in as far as 500 meters but it becomes very narrow and you would have to belly crawl. This is also where the bats and land crabs live. I was happy to go in only as long as I could stand upright. I guess I'm not much of a spelunker.
Water still seeps through the limestone forming stalactites and stalagmites.
Can you see the land crab in there. The park ranger who gave us a tour of the cave pointed it out to us. I think it is just a plastic crab they put in there for the tourists. He seemed to know exactly where to find it.
Drawings by the Arawok Indians about 1000 years old.
The beach at Boca Prins. Beautiful and isolated, but not made for swimming because of the strong undertow.
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