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.
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.
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.
St Ninian's Cave, Galloway. Which the 4/5th C saint was said to use as a retreat for peaceful meditation. Also a location for the iconic folk horror film, The Wicker Man.
The caves have seven doors and as such it is called "Satbaran" and people believe that those caves run like tunnels and lead to Russia and other neighbouring countries....taken in Kashmir Himalayas, India
As we approached the entrance on a hot Summer's day we could feel the coolness of the cave, and when we ventured a short way into the large entrance we were rapidly plunged into darkness. Even the light from our phone torches did not penetrate very far...
Porth yr Ogof is a cave located near the village of Ystradfellte, in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales. It lies on the course of the Afon Mellte, a river whose name translates as ‘lightning’, commonly explained as a reference to the 'flashy' nature of the river, i.e. rising and falling rapidly in response to rainfall. The cave's passageways are over 2.25 kilometres (1.40 mi) in length. Among the cave's fifteen entrances is the largest cave entrance in Wales and one of the largest in the UK standing at nearly 20 metres (66 ft) wide and 8 metres (26 ft) high.
Porth yr Ogof is now uncommercialised, and is used as a learning resource for caving. The cave is generally wet; White Horse Pool, named because of the shape of the calcite deposit on the back wall, is several metres in depth despite the shallowness of the edges, and there are many sumps (completely flooded passageways).
Cavers are presented various challenges inside, including the Wormhole (a curving crawl tube on the right wall of the Main Entrance), the Letterbox (a rectangular space in the passage) and the Creek, home to 'Death Ledge' which is further inside the cave. There are also two features named the Washing Machine.
There have been eleven deaths at Porth yr Ogof since 1957, and all but one have lost their lives in the cold, fast-flowing and 7-metre (23 ft) deep Resurgence Pool at the far end of the cave where the Afon Mellte resurges.
Information from Wikipedia
Calinawan Cave got its name from the word linaw, a Tagalog term for "clear". It is said that during the 15th to 18th centuries, opposing parties used to convene inside the cave to settle disputes, thus, the name Calinawan.
This cave also served as a shelter and a hideaway from the Japanese during World War II. It was also in this cave where Japanese soldiers surrendered to the Liberation Forces.
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We made the short hike which includes a slickrock ascent, to the Sand Caves near Kenab, Utah. The caves were created in the 1970s by sand miners to make glass. The caves are now a popular tourist attraction. Near a highway, they receive a lot of visitors. Many of them have chiseled graffiti in the sandstone.
Happy Flare Friday!
I often find Khumbu in this cave. It seems to be his favourite place. Cool in summer, warm in winter.
Bears Cave (Romanian: Peștera Urșilor) is located in the Western Carpathian (Apuseni) Mountains, on the outskirts of Chişcău Village, Bihor County, Romania. The cave contains several complete skeletons and numerous bones of extinct cave bears (Ursus spelaeus), a species that disappeared more than 15,000 years ago. It seems that a big boulder slided and blocked the entrance in the cave. Approximately 140 cave bears were caught inside.
The cave was discovered in 1975. Its entrance is situated at an altitude of 482 m (1,581 ft) and the visited portion is about 1 km (3,300 ft) in length.
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.
Cave is my interpretation of Antony Gormley’s installation last year at the Royal Academy. The colossal Cave recreates a highly abstracted human form in 100 tons of overlapping sheet steel. This filled the show’s penultimate space with a dark maze of walk-through chambers, which required the strengthening of the gallery floor.
Ruakuri Cave tour is the longest guided underground tour in NZ. Large caverns and many types of formations can be seen here. I plan to upload a few of the areas that I found interesting or noteworthy.
Scout Cave is in Snow Canyon State Park near St. George, Utah. It is about 100 feet deep and 50 feet tall. The view from its mouth includes a residential neighborhood all the way to distant mountains.
Gomantong Cave is located in the lower Kinabatangan area and the caves have become a major tourist attraction in Sabah. Gomantong is the largest limestone hill and the most important source of edible birds nets in Sabah.
Seen at about a 0.5 ft. tide (meaning that the foreground is underwater much of the time).
At the mouth of Coon Creek,
Montana de Oro State Park,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
Like on the foreground rocks at left, there is much pink on the lower walls of the cave--encrusting coralline algae--quite an exquisite wall color. Previous photos at the same cave:
The Cumberland Gap includes this gem, the Gap Cave. Many may know it by its older name Cudjo's Caverns. It was once Gap cave but was chanced to Cudjo's Caverns after a popular book came out that features a cave called Cudjos. The owners tried to capitalize on the popularity by changing the name. When the NPS took over the site they changed it back. It hard to believe the cave looks as good as it does inside when you learn the past. Loads of tourists through here at a time when preservation was not understood, and they held parties and even plays down there!
This is one of the larger features in the cave. It was a pain to shoot because you were on a tour, so you can't stop, there is no lighting, only these massive bright flashlights that EVERYONE has, and the tour guide is always in the way. Oh, and no tripods allowed. So this is the result of several images to exclude beams of light and hot spots, and people. Oh, and thank goodness for the new lightroom denoise feature. This was 10,000 ISO for goodness sake. Came out pretty good considering all that nonsense.
Let me know what you think.