carlsbad

carlsbad
Originally uploaded by josefina la pelirroja.

we made it to carlsbad cavern!! 750 feet below the surface-- and the "big room" has as much floor space as 14 football (americano) fields! it was a cool 55 degrees below and we spent a couple hours down there. then, at dusk, we sat at the cave entrance and watched as a colony of 250,000 mexican free-tail bats flew out for their night of insect-eating. they fly out in a counter-clockwise spiral because they're not strong enough to fly straight up-- so it looks like a bat tornado.