Thursday, October 9, 2014

Deep, deep underground

In New Mexico (and parts of Texas), we headed through the Guadalupe Mountains National Park and then into to Carlsbad Caverns.  The mountains were really cool because you could really see the layers of rock on the mountains.  We explored the caverns for a couple hours and they were magnificent.  It was a little creepy climbing down, down, down into a huge hole in the ground, but the speleothems (cave formations) were amazing.

El Capitan is the big mountain on the left (one of the highest points in Texas

Entering into the caverns.

This stalagmite looks like it is from a nightmare.






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