This is a cave system that was discovered by a farmer who kept dumping trash down a hole in the ground he thought was a small sink hole. After several years, he wondered why the hole never filled up. He asked some spelunkers (a cave explorer) to check it out. They discovered a several caverns with beautiful calcite formations. They also discovered bones from a prehistoric cave bear. The formations are between 500,000 and 320 million years old!
We took a self guided tour of the cavern. This took us about an hour. It is amazing how water leaking through rocks over thousands of years create such awesome formations.
The photos have a greenish yellow hue which I believe is from the lights used to illuminate the cavern. I took a few photos with the flash to see the real color but without the flash you could see more detail.
We will be heading west over the next few days and if we come across anything exciting we will post more photos. Until then, Thanks for looking.
Driving from the caverns, we came across some cows. We just had to stop and let Dug check them out. Dug was happy as a clam (as you can see by the smile on his face).
There were names for each of these formations but in my infinite wisdom I forgot to take photos of the name tags for each. So I will not attempt to try and figure out each name. Sorry for no captions on the photos below.
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