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Cathedral Caves

Date: 28 May 2008
Photographer: Cinttu: gallery
Location: New Zealand: gallery
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Cathedral Caves

Date: 28 May 2008
Photographer: Cinttu: gallery
Location: New Zealand: gallery
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stock picture taken by company. Glow worms doin their thing.

Date: 16 April 2008
Photographer: Dodger: gallery
Location: New Zealand: gallery
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stock picture taken by company. Glow worm webs to catch food

Date: 16 April 2008
Photographer: Dodger: gallery
Location: New Zealand: gallery
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Formation (19)01 (2592x1944)

stock picture taken by company. Stalactite formations

Date: 16 April 2008
Photographer: Dodger: gallery
Location: New Zealand: gallery
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Date: 16 April 2008
Photographer: Dodger: gallery
Location: New Zealand: gallery
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Date: 16 April 2008
Photographer: Dodger: gallery
Location: New Zealand: gallery
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the gang, hunter, me, Martin, Scott and Carrie.

Date: 16 April 2008
Photographer: Dodger: gallery
Location: New Zealand: gallery
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Jason at Cenote Dzitnup

Date: 2 April 2008
Photographer: claireh: gallery
Location: Valladolid, Mexico: gallery
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Trekkers paradise

A comfortable stroll leads you to beauty like this all over the island-Mellieha

Date: March 2008
Photographer: MaltaInfo: gallery
Location: Malta: gallery
Tags: mountains landscape trekking caves
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Day 166 - Colossal Cave, Weeping Wall

Colossal Cave is dormant for the most part. Some rain does seep in here, so occasionally this formation still gets wet.

Date: 14 February 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Tucson, USA: gallery
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Day 166 - Colossal Cave, Stairs

Between 1934 and 1938, the CCC constructed walkways, stairs, handrails and lights to make the cave easier for the public to tour.

Date: 14 February 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Tucson, USA: gallery
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Day 166 - Colossal Cave, Mom Starting

This is Mom just as she started the Cave tour, still not sure she wants to go through the tour.

Date: 14 February 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Tucson, USA: gallery
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Day 166 - Colossal Cave, Mom Descending

There are 363 steps on this tour, somehow she actually made it through all of them!

Date: 14 February 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Tucson, USA: gallery
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Day 166 - Colossal Cave, Ladder

The Park offers three different levels of tours. The middle one (in terms of difficulty) requires climbing on ladders such as the one on the left and some crawling.

Date: 14 February 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Tucson, USA: gallery
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Day 166 - Colossal Cave, Hall

If you look carefully, you can see some of our tour group in the crack at the bottom. This gives you some idea of how large some of the openings are.

Date: 14 February 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Tucson, USA: gallery
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Day 166 - Colossal Cave, Guide

Dave, our tour guide, is on the lower left. He often used a flashlight to point out various formations.

Date: 14 February 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Tucson, USA: gallery
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Day 166 - Colossal Cave 3

This is an idea what some of the formations look like without the flash. Lighting was installed by the CCC in the 1930's, so the cave is never pitch black (unless someone pulls the plug!)

Date: 14 February 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Tucson, USA: gallery
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Day 166 - Colossal Cave 2

The cave surfaces tend to be brown from centuries of accumulated dust. Since the cave is dormant, little to no water runs through it which would otherwise was the dust off.

Date: 14 February 2008
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Tucson, USA: gallery
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Day 166 - Colossal Cave1

General formations in the cave. Limestone dissolves in water, then can be recreated as stalagmites (from the ground) and stalactites (from the ceiling)