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Mammoth Cave – Part 8

December 31, 2011 Sandra Graham Leave a comment

These formations that curtain down from the ceiling are called draperies or shawls.

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Since this is my last post for the year, I wish you a very happy new year.

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Mammoth Cave – Part 7

December 30, 2011 Sandra Graham Leave a comment

Columns form when stalactites meet stalagmites. Here is a stalactite and stalagmite that is on the verge of meeting.

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Mammoth Cave – Part 6

December 29, 2011 Sandra Graham Leave a comment

The cave was also filled with beautiful thin stalactites that are called very aptly, straws.

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Mammoth Cave – Part 5

December 28, 2011 Sandra Graham Leave a comment

Although no mammoths lived in the caves, there were evidence of other big marsupials, like the marsupial lion.

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From the teeth alone, it must have been a sizable beast.

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Mammoth Cave – Part 4

December 27, 2011 Sandra Graham Leave a comment

A belated merry Christmas to everyone! Hope that you had a peaceful day, and a bit of a rest afterwards too.

Back at the cave, we came upon a fossilised jaw of an ancient marsupial still embedded in the rock. Caves are perfect places to find fossils of animals from times past.

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Mammoth Cave – Part 3

December 22, 2011 Sandra Graham Leave a comment

It gets even prettier the further we went. Here is an elegant stalagmite surrounded by flowstones, draperies, and columns further out back.

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Mammoth Cave – Part 2

December 21, 2011 Sandra Graham Leave a comment

The caves were immediately impressive. They weren’t particularly large in size, but extensive and with plenty of interesting decorations. Here are some pretty flowstones.

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Mammoth Cave – Part 1

December 20, 2011 Sandra Graham Leave a comment

And now for something completely different. The Margaret River area is also limestone country, but unlike the south coast, its limestone beauty is underground. There are a few caves in the region, we decided to visit Mammoth Cave.

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Hamelin Bay – Part 2

December 19, 2011 Sandra Graham Leave a comment

Hamelin Bay wasn’t always so quiet. In the late 19th century it was a busy little port, with a 600m long jetty to serve the timber industry nearby. Unfortunately it was also a dangerous port, especially in gales. The jetty was abandoned in 1900 due to the loss of 5 ships and a further 2 groundings in the harbour. All that’s left now are the timber piles.

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Hamelin Bay – Part 1

December 17, 2011 Sandra Graham Leave a comment

We made a brief stop at Hamelin Bay before the weather closed in. Hamelin Bay is a nice, wild beach in Leeuwin-Geographe National Park. After I took the photo we met a pair of bushwalkers doing the 4 day Cape-to-Cape walk from north to south. At this stage they were on their penultimate day.

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