How do you write a blog about Carlsbad Caverns. They are truly amazing. The size is beyond what will fit in a camera. They have mapped 138 miles of caverns. The main cavern you get to tour on the self guided tour is 750 feet below the surface and will hold 14 football fields, the ceiling is 200 feet high in places, one of the large formations is 62 feet high. The place is so big you just don’t have the feeling you are underground.
Today Jean and I walked the one mile trail from the natural opening 750 feet down into the mail cavern. Here is some of my pictures:
A flower from the natural entrance.
And a wasp.
I found this on the net showing a cross cut of the caverns.
Need to have at least one picture to show the bats are here.
The next amazing thing you experience is the trail down into the caverns. It drops quickly into the ground dropping at a plus 20% grade for almost a mile.
The ranger said it is an hour trip to the bottom, we took 2 hours and enjoyed every minute of the trip down.