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Descriptive Settings: Caves

What Can I Describe? How Can I Describe It? What Can It Do? Examples of Effective Phrases

bones chilly abandon


…adventuring into the dark, rocky hollow…
creepy adventure
cave dwelling animals –
bats, rats, insects, bears crumbling camouflage …leaning against the cold, wet stone, I
cave dwellers dangerous conceal gazed across the darkness of the cave…
cave paintings dank disappear
crevices dark discover I stumbled, catching myself against the
decaying dwell slimy wall…
darkness
fungi deserted explore
…a flock of bats swept across the cave,
ground echoey hear shrieking and flapping overhead…
movements eery hide
noise empty inhabit …venturing even deeper into the tunnelling,
openings endless journey mysterious grotto…
passageways gloomy keep secret
isolated learn …journeying into the depths of the cavern
rock formation
through a network of passageways…
senses murky loiter
smell mysterious lurk
stalagmites and stalactites sheltered protect
temperature silent quest
tracks unexplored reveal
vibrations uninhabited scare
vines vast shield
walls wet uncover
water

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