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First sign of caves: dark corners in the rocks Second sign of caves: big cracks and holes in the rocks Third sign of caves: descending a stairway into a cave with a group of people and a safety-paranoid tour guide Safety paranoid tour guide. She took her job very seriously. Her job consisted primarily of telling us which rocks we might bump our heads or elbows on. This is on the floor, it's a swirly thing. Stalactites. bacterially influenced stalactal formation. oozy brown thing shiny rocks everything in a cave is interesting, right? right? stalactite-city! partial curtaining a flow (floe?) where water has been running depositing calcite for a looong time. same flow. called "the porridge pot" or something. they had cutesy names for most of the formations. Big ol' stalactite. Stumpy phallic stalagmite. Curtain, from water running along an angle depositting calcite and such, with iron colouring from the iron in the earth above. This one was nicknamed "streaky bacon" (aka "bacon" where I come from) Big chamber "Rice paddies." These were tiny little formations from where water had dripped down. big stalactites. flowy. many. doubly. reflecting in the water. it was pretty cool looking. big flow (floe?) that's had its bottom part disolved away. Or maybe it never formed because the water level was higher, I can't remember. Stalactites in these caves grew at 1cm/millenium. Clare with famous stalactite. 2.5 meter stalactite named after the cave's initial explorer. Was vandalized and glued back together, they're not sure if it's still growing. Natural sewage pipe, near the cave exit. Nice tree. Waterfall at the cave's exit; there was a stream and a walkway there. Walkway
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