Mercer Cavern ( Explored)
This is a view inside of Mercer cavern looking down to the bottom where we would be walking. The Cavern is 16 stories down to the bottom and quite a few flights of stairs down. As you can imagine, the going down was a little easier than the way back to the top.
The cavern was discovered by Walter Mercer in 1885 and was eventually named after him. He was hoping the cavern would lead to a gold mine, but there wasn't any valuable ore here. Mr. Mercer did stop prospecting and decided to start giving tours inside the cavern system.
There have been stairs and lighting put into the cavern to make it easier to explore and give tours today. There are a lot of stalagmites and stalactites in the cavern along with a lot of other nice features. You can use a flash to take pictures, but I wanted to test of the sensor on my D500 and didn't use one. This was taken with the lighting in the cavern. Not too bad.
Mercer Cavern ( Explored)
This is a view inside of Mercer cavern looking down to the bottom where we would be walking. The Cavern is 16 stories down to the bottom and quite a few flights of stairs down. As you can imagine, the going down was a little easier than the way back to the top.
The cavern was discovered by Walter Mercer in 1885 and was eventually named after him. He was hoping the cavern would lead to a gold mine, but there wasn't any valuable ore here. Mr. Mercer did stop prospecting and decided to start giving tours inside the cavern system.
There have been stairs and lighting put into the cavern to make it easier to explore and give tours today. There are a lot of stalagmites and stalactites in the cavern along with a lot of other nice features. You can use a flash to take pictures, but I wanted to test of the sensor on my D500 and didn't use one. This was taken with the lighting in the cavern. Not too bad.