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The entrance. They made sure to tell us there were 65 steps, and
hardhats are required - for very good reason, the ceilings are very
low in places.
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Not all the formations were illuminated, I took this flash picture
of a dark area.
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The problem with public caves - people just can't resist throwing
money in any little bit of water, but these have gone dry.
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This is a poor attempt at trying to capture the back of the same
area as the previous photo. Note that there's a curtain formation
in the upper left. The blue area appears to be a channel that continues
onward.
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An attempt to capture the fluted "edges" of the former pools here.
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The Sentinel. Difficult to photograph because it is necessarily
behind protective mesh.
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This is the beautiful Reindeer Cave. I wasn't able to do it justice,
unfortunately. This cave was opened to the public in 2000, and it
is well behind mesh. Even then, within the first two weeks of it
opening, someone had managed to break two formations within this
cave, using a stick or something.
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Another picture of the Reindeer Cave, clearly showing the forest
of straws, which is what a stalagtite starts out as. The cave was
named "Reindeer" because I guess they found a reindeer skeleton
here; presumably brought in by some cave-dwelling predator.
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Closeup of a curtain formation within the Reindeer Cave.
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