Thursday, October 18, 2012

Carlsbad Caves

Another place to put on your bucket list. Pictures don't show much. The caves are 750 feet underground. The elevator gets you there in 58 seconds or you can actually get down by walking through a natural entrance, switchbacks all the way. There is one cavern that is 370 feet tall from top to bottom. There are hundreds of thousands of bats living in other parts of the caves. They used a sophisticated computerized system to count them and there have been up to 1.8 million here at one time. They fly at dusk and we are waiting for six o'clock to see them but there are not many here right now because they are migrating.

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