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| White City, a little tourist stop outside the boundaries of
Carlsbad National Park. |
Allison, Rob, and Marty waiting outside the Cavern entrance for dusk --
to watch several hundred thousand bats emerge for their night's hunting.
We have no pictures of the bats, as we didn't want to annoy them with our
flash. They were great. |
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And now cavern pictures -- they speak for themselves. |
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We walked from the Natural Entrance to the Big Room and took the walk
around the Big Room. Those are the two unguided, walking cave trips available.
I don't know how much more spectacular the real spelunking expeditions are,
but none of us were about to crawl through the narrow passages of the Carlsbad
to find out. The caves, by the way, were splendidly comfortable after the
time we spent in the Southwest heat. |