In Focus #1 - The Cave Expedition

Hello everyone!

Welcome to my very first in focus! I'll try to post one of these every other day :).

Today we look at the the first ever expedition, The Cave Expedition in January 2010!

The Cave Expedition was one of the 2 parties that had brand new cave rooms. One week in January 2010 after the Holiday Party of 2009, there was a rockslide in the mine:

So then we decided to dig it out as promised in the newspaper:

So then on January 22 we got to head down to the mine, and there was a small setup there:

So we grabbed our miners helmet and went down the new unexplored mineshaft system and once we got there we got to the cave mine which looks like this:

So as you can see there is a big pit full of dirt, we had to dig that with our new miners helmet (rare at the time) and try to find pieces to assemble an Amethyst which looks like this:

Once we assembled the Amethyst, a bolder will role over to open another cave up which was the Hidden Lake and looks like this:

 This looks like the Hidden Lake we all know, but its not. It was brand new and there was no access from the Forest at the time. There was also an item for sale, the Deep Sea Diving Suit, then after you get that, you have access to the Underwater Room:

You then come in, you did not need the key at the time because this room was brand new, and Puffle Rescue was not out yet, you would then get the Coral Reef Background as your Party Reward. Then after the party ended the new mine system has became permanent, and Puffle Rescue has came out. You from this day on now need a key to get underwater, and this is what the mine looked like afterwords:

This is not the Mine we know today. Hope you had fun reading this and I hope you tune in for more!

-Jess