Alvin McDonald was not quite 18 when he started recording his cave explorations in a diary.
Click here to view the text of Alvin McDonald's diary, or click on the page numbers below to download a PDF of each handwritten page of his diary. Each page is a separate file (50-200 k). A good place to start is on page 16 as earlier pages are mostly monetary accounts.
Did You Know? Porcupine babies are called porcupettes. When they are born they have 15,000 quills. Porcupettes are born in the spring and, lucky for mom, the quills are soft. They can climb trees within an hour of birth. more...