Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, Page 8

G. Some of my favorite Big Room formations

OK, my all time favorite is the Painted Grotto, very difficult to capture on film I found out after several tries, but here goes. First comes the main formation and its smiling mask on its right lower side:

Next comes a lower, deeper formation on the left side of the main formation:

Let's zoom in and clarify that a bit, and you can almost see the rock looking back at you:

So if that is my favorite, what is my next favorite? Probably the Doll's Theater: I like complexity--

I also like the Chinese Theater, although it is not nearly as complex:

But there are unnamed complex formations in many places, such as this one, that I also like:

And several places where the complexity and the distances made the pictures not so easy to get to come out right, like this formation with its water flow (both photos are of the same water body, continuing below the path):

I like looking through this hole in the wall into an adjoining room:

I also like this 'living' stalagmite' in the distance with its water flow (next photo) and all that marvelous complexity around it:

That tall stalagmite to the lower left in the above photo has water dripping from it (it is alive!):

And this is by no means all of my favorites. In fact everything I look at long enough becomes one for a while. But it is time to go home.

I'll post more photos when I do a guided tour next. I may make another "movie" (slide-show set to music) from this set of photos you have just seen. I'll come back and take out this last sentence if I do, and put a link in its place.

The virtual cave visit is now at an end:

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