As is often the case, we need to return to a location to get some additional footage. My shoes, nice and dry after an evening with the hair dryer blowing them, go back into the river as we hike back to the cave entrance.
This time I feel more relaxed to take in the scene. The water in the shallow river is absolutely clear, so it takes on the orange brown of the rocks, the green of the jungle, the blue of the sky. It’s a cloudy day today, so everything is subdued and maybe more fitting for a place so lush.
There is another stop for poisonous snake removal, yet the trip the second time seems much shorter. We aren’t going in the cave today. At the entrance will be shot for the all important, show opener. This is the very opening of the show where there is a just a few seconds to grab the viewers attention. You need to keep them from changing the station. So, how to spin, swimming into a dark cave, wading through chest deep water, entering chambers of huge stalagmite and stalactites to find pots and the crystalized skeletons of humans sacrificed thirteen hundred years ago... sound interesting? Pretty much tell it straight, right?
Keith and Don stand in the Waist deep water before the entrance of the cave, going over and over the “Opener”. I don’t mind hanging out. It’s a beautiful place and lord knows I know how many takes it takes to get something right, when I’m recording music. So I go for a swim, skip some stones, when not getting Don tapes or batteries.
After the hike out, it’s back to the hotel to pack up all the gear.
Then it’s off to Honduras.
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