Carlsbad Caverns

 From Midland, Trish and I traveled to Carlsbad, New Mexico, and spent the night at the entrance to Carlsbad Caverns National Park.  We went into the park and received our spaced out COVID entrance time to enter the Caverns. There were two choices: take the elevator seventy-five stories down to the bottom of the Caverns, or walk down the long way.  Not wanting to miss anything, we walked down the long way.

On the way down.

We were very glad that we walked down as you would have missed so much if you did not go through the region where the bats breed and live or experience the descent as the first cave explorers did.

In the Big Room.

Once at the bottom, 750 feet below the surface, we entered the Big Room.  More than a mile around it, it simply is filled with every imaginable wet cave formation.  We could have spent days here slowly absorbing the beauty created by thousands of years of cavern developmental evolution.  It was spectacular!

Wondrous!

Because we were in no hurry at all, we were the last people to leave the Caverns at almost the five o’clock closing time.  This time of year the bats have gone to Mexico, so, we left with a good reason to come back: to see the quarter million bats during there summer sojourn here.