Fairy Caves

There is a really cool story behind these caves but it is really involved and long.  There are some really cool pictures though and I'll just put captions on them for you.  :0)

We tried to take a lot of pictures of ourselves. :0)

The entrance to the upper cave.

Where the second owners barred up the original opening to the cave.

"Clouds"

 If you look closely at the picture below, you will see what the cavers call, "soda straws".  These ones are only about a half an inch long.  Our guide told us that it takes 100 years for them to grow an inch.

"Popcorn"

The opening that you would go down if you had gone on the wild cave tour.

On the left is the town, No Name.  Below is the highway and the Colorado river.

This is where you would come out on the wild cave tour.

This is the entrance to the lower cave.  They had to blast from the outside in to get to this cave.

Just some of the "Barn".

This is the cave fairy.  If you look you can see her standing on one leg with the other tucked up behind her.  Her arms outstretched and her head looking down.

"Brain"

"Cave bacon"  I thought it looked like a ribbon.

Here is some "soda straws"  Those skinny ones are probably over 18 inches long.  Now remember, it takes 100 years for just an inch.  Pretty cool, huh!

This is an active stalagmite.  It had a drop of water hit the top ever 5 seconds.  We tried to catch a picture of it but it was too quick for us.

See how far down it went.  We were on our way to the bottom of the cave to get to another room.

More "cave bacon".

Here is the hole into the "Kings Row".

Look at all this!  It was huge and just full.

"Elephant tusk"

The "Kings Row" because it looks like the back of a chess board.  The knight on the left, king, queen and the rook.

"King Kong"

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and next to her is a stalagmite and stalagtight that has turned into a callum since it has connected. 

"Romeo and Juliet" embraced on the left with their "Wedding Cake" on the right.  The guide said that in the winter they call it the "Christmas Tree" because...

"Santa Claus" is in the cave too.

I hope that you enjoyed looking at all the pictures of the cave.  It was so amazing to hear the stories and to see all of the things that the earth does with just a bit of water and minerals.