Caves and Mines
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The wow factor is very high in this place. Probably a wide angle lense would have done a better job capturing the whole spirit of it. Also a tripod, but this hand held photo with high ISO is all that was possible.
Tınaztepe Cave, one of the longest caves in the world
Tınaztepe caves are located in Seydişehir, Konya. The world's third, is Turkey's largest caves. Its total length is 22 km, and its navigable part is 1580 meters. It is a completely horizontal cave except the 64-meter descent at the end. It was opened in 2004 as Cave Recreation Facilities.
Located at the crossing of the Konya-Antalya Highway on the Taurus Mountains and discovered by the French scientist Michel Bakalowichz in 1968, the cave is an important natural wonder.
In addition to stalactites and stalagmites, Tınaztepe Cave offers a different environment to its guests with its unchanging heat in summer and winter in its open section.
Stalactites and stalagmites, a cave with a lake inside. The cave, where daily tours are organized due to the ease of transportation, fascinates those who see it. Tinaztepe actual length of 22 kilometers, one of Turkey's longest cave. One of the three few caves in the world
There is 75 percent humidity inside the cave. An ideal cave for asthma patients
The Buchan Caves are a group of limestone caves that include the Royal Cave and the Fairy Cave, located south-west of Buchan, in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. They have a total length of between 3 and 4 kilometres (1.9 and 2.5 mi), and six entrances.[2]
The Buchan Cave Reserve has been transferred back to the Gunaikurnai Nation and is jointly managed with the state.
The limestone rock at Buchan was laid down during the Devonian period about 300 – 400 million years ago. At the time, the sea covered this area of East Gippsland which was alive with shellfish and coral. Their remains were deposited in layers and over the years compacted to form limestone. The caves were formed by solution of the limestone.
For several years we were trying to reach these caves and finally in 2019 we done it!
A big thank you to guy who was stood at the opening kinda shows how big this is .cathedral caves lake district
Still trawling through the old pics I have on file - finding myself looking for somewhat cooler images this morning. Hoping that today will bring me a card reader so that I can start playing with my new images...
Apparently there is an exhibition of Martin Parr's work in Nice this summer! It is about 30 miles away.......
The caves run deep into the hillside above West Wycombe village and directly beneath St Lawrence's Church and Mausoleum (which were also constructed by Sir Francis Dashwood around the same time the caves were excavated). West Wycombe Park, ancestral seat of the Dashwood family and also a National Trust property, lies directly across the valley. The caves' striking entrance, designed as the façade of a mock gothic church and built from flint and chalk mortar, which was erected in around 1752, can be viewed directly from West Wycombe House.
I think a return trip to Hocking Hills needs to happen soon. This is Ash Cave, and the falls at the far end are 90' high.
Bears' Cave (Peștera Urșilor) is located the western Apuseni Mountains, on the outskirts of Chişcău village, Bihor County, northwestern Romania. It was discovered in 1975 by "Speodava", an amateur speleologist group.
Bears' Cave received its name after the 140 cave bear skeletons which were discovered on the site in 1983. The cave bear, also known as "Ursus Spelaeus", is a species of bear which became extinct during the Last Glacial Maximum, about 27,500 years ago.
Sugong is a small sea cave off the coast of Bagac in Bataan, Philippines. While Bataan is known for its World War 2 battles sites and memorials, the province has several natural attractions that are just becoming popular. Several of them are coastal destinations like this.
Fairy Cave is a huge natural cavern near Kuching in Malaysian Borneo. It's well known but seemingly seldom visited these days. The ceiling is covered in squeaking bats and the floor slippery with guano & condensation.
Though I could have walked further in, at the point I took this shot was where the natural light started to fade at the back of the cave.
On Thursday I took a wander up to Corndon Tor on Dartmoor. This was the first time I'd visited this tor and the area looked gorgeous covered in Heather and Gorse.
About 50 yards or so up from the road sits Cave-Penney Cross. It's a memorial to Evelyn Anthony Cave-Penney, who was shot dead by an enemy sniper whilst leading his troops in Palestine on June 8th 1918.
Cave-Penney was a lieutenant in Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides who can be argued were one of the most famous regiments of the Indian Army. He was only 19 when he was killed.
There is an inscription on the other side of the memorial that reads...
"TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF
EVELYN ANTHONY CAVE PENNEY
LIEUT. Q.V.O. CORPS OF GUIDES
FELL IN PALESTINE WHILST
GALLANTLY COMMANDING HIS MEN
JUNE 8TH 1918 AGED 19
LOOK UP AND LIFT UP YOUR HEADS"
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As challenging as the tour and the weather conditions in the Alps were yesterday, the experience in a glacier cave is unforgettable. I always thought the colours on the pictures were a bit extreme, but these tones of blue do not seem to be from this world.
Ok, I have some favorite things to see- waterfalls, caves, and paces where cool nature and man meet. So one a recent trip to Japan, I looked or all of these things. Oddly you don't see as many caves (or waterfalls) in Japan as you do in the US. This cave, Sandanbeki, is a bit of an odd duck. Caves can be untouched by man, or can have some light improvements, like lighting and sidewalks, and then you have caves like this. This cave quite the tourist attraction. Most of it was created by man, almost like a mine, but still very interesting nonetheless. There are now shrines in there, access to a real sea cave on the coast, loads of interpretive signs, and oh yeah, an elevator to get there. Hardly a natural wonder. Still, that means loads of cool photo opportunities.
This image is of a shrine location inside the cave. I knew I wanted the focus to be on the lanterns, but I wanted some environment too. So I went with a high perspective to highlight the unique lanterns. You see the lettering on the lanterns starting to peel? That's because they used to give stickers as tickets, to wear on your shirt. However, poor behavior ruins the fun for everyone. In this specific shrine, visitors would take the sticker off and stick to the lights, the posts, the statutes, just about everything. When they clen off the stickers, the lettering came off too. You can still see some of the old stickers that I guess they could not reach, on the beam above the lanterns. I won't go into a screed on who probably put the stickers there, but it probably was not anyone who was Japanese. If everyone just respected...hang on, no screed. I loved everything we saw on this trip far too much to want to leave any trace I was ever there. Take only pictures, right?
Guess what? They don't do the whole sticker-ticket thing anymore. Guess you live and learn.
After visiting the Škocjan Caves we continued our walking along the Big Collapse Doline and visited smaller caves. Here is the first one - the Tomnic Cave :)
Tomnic Cave is the one of the most extensive archeological cave sites in the easten Alps. Several cultural layers have been discovered in the cave sediments, dating back to the early Middle Ages, Late Antiquity, the Iron Age, the Bronze Age and the Eneolithic (or Copper Age). Tomnic Cave is also the largest prehistoric cave burial site in the Karst region. Five Iron Age graves were discovered in the cave entrance and the skeletons of at least ten Eneolitic bodies in a small recess in the eastern passage.
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Po wyjściu z Jaskiń Szkocjańskich kontynuowaliśmy nasz spacer szlakiem wzdłuż Wielkiego Zapadliska, odwiedzając po drodze mniejsze jaskinie. Tu pierwsza z nich - jaskinia Tomnic :)
Jaskinia Tomnic jest jedną z najważniejszych jaskiń archeologicznych w Alpach Wschodnich. W osadach jaskini odkryto kilka warstw kulturowych, datowanych na wczesne średniowiecze, późną starożytność, epokę żelaza, epokę brązu i epokę miedzi. Jaskinia Tomnic jest również największym prehistorycznym miejscem pochówku jaskiniowego w regionie krasowym. W wejściu do jaskini odkryto pięć grobów z epoki żelaza, zaś w małej wnęce we wschodnim przejściu szkielety co najmniej dziesięciu ciał z epoki miedzi.