Carlsbad Cavern and we add another state to our repitoire (New Mexico)

Carlsbad Caverns are huge caves under the Guadalupe Mountain Range in the Chihuahuan Desert  It was totally a hit. Fascinating was the hole in the ground which could house  a gigantic army of bats--it must have been a whale of a big cave. An inscription reading "J White 1898" was discovered deep within Carlsbad Caverns in the 1980s. It provides witness to the presence of a 15- or 16-year-old Jim White--a true explorer. We stayed at White City RV at the gateway (7 miles) to the Caverns.

Carlsbad Caverns was wonderful and yes, it was cold and windy



View out the front of the RV at White City

 

This is pretty basic RV'ing but we had water, electric and sewer and it was as close as you can get

On Thursday the 29^th we hiked the 4 miles throughout the cave down then UP! (the elevator was broken?!)and saw spectacular sites.  We were too late to sign up for guided tours but we got the little information guides on the phones—they helped a lot.  But the views were absolutely unbelievable!

Opening to the Caverns--looked a lot easier than it turned out

Huge Column where stalactites meet stalagmites 

Beautiful

Land of the fairies

Giant column with draperies

Chinese theatre