I like to imagine where the wild things live. Maybe its because of countless nights glued to the book (by Maurice Sendak) with my mom and my little brother. But I'd like to think that some of it has to do with a feeling I sometimes get, the feeling that I am standing somewhere that the wild things could have actually lived, and had I been fortunate enough to have been born a wild thing, where I might have lived. The Animal Flower Caves in St. Lucy's Parish on the northern point of Barbados is one of the places my wild things live.
The small pools around the cave are often filled with a small sea anemone referred to as an animal flower. Animal flowers ( better described here wild things ) have tentacles that sting fish and prey that might be passing by. These tentacles will suck into the shaft of the flower upon touching a foreign object, or feeling a strange current. I recommend watching this video my brother put up, at minute 2:25 he approaches an animal flower growing on a beer can, and you can see how fast it reacts to his presence. Def A Wild Thing!
There are some incredible moss's, fungi and sulfuric growths scattered over most of the caves walls.
The main entrance and exit ( unless you want to scale the cliff ) to the cave is a set of stairs carved out in 1912. On rare occasions when large storms roll through, the cave will fill with water and create a blowhole effect launching water out of this entrance!
With a coral floor that is over 450,000 years old, I just know this cave holds the bones and fossils of true Wild Things.