| Windmills on the way to Carlsbad Caverns. |
| This is the walk down to the opening of the cavern. |
| This is the seating area for watching the bats emerge from the cave every night. |
| The entrance gets bigger, but the photos still cannot make your hair stand up. |
| More impressive! |
| Now it starts getting scary |
| These pictures are not coming out like I wish they would. Wait a minute! I just happen to have my Cannon Powershot A580 instruction manual in my pocket. Give me five minutes to make the proper adjustments. |
| O K, I think I have it now. |
| The ladder to the lower cave |
| Dead Bats |
| Deeper and deeper |
| Writing on the wall from 1925 |
| This passage was difficult carrying my camera and snacks. |
| Here I was afraid of scratching my camera lense. |
| In reality, the last section of photos that you have looked at were purchased at the visitor center. They are copyrighted and intended for personal, educational and non-commercial use only. |
| The night after going into the cavern, I went back just before dark to watch the bats leave the cave. This early in the spring there is only a small number of bats that inhabit the cave. More will be migrating into the cave in the later weeks. It's hard to imagine anything more spectacular than what i witnessed that afternoon. The bats were emerging by the thousands. If you are in the Carlsbad area during the summer, I highly recommend going to witness this natural phenomenon. Unfortunately you cannot have any cameras or video equipment |
