We went down into a huge cave near White’s City, New Mexico called Carlsbad Caverns. The cave is incredibly big. There are alot of big caves that all join up.

There’s the Salon Grande (or Big Room), the Bat Cave, Lake of the Clouds, King’s Palace, and they found out in the last decade or so that a cave over a hundred miles long called Lechugilla Cave joins up with Carlsbad Caverns.

We took the natural entrance into the cave, which REALLY stank, and we went to where the elevators were and grabbed something to eat. When we finished, we took a trail that went into the Salon Grande.

We saw lots of cool formations, and a ranger showed us a bat skeleton that had been calcified. There was a pool that had the sign with the name upside down so you could read it in the pool. I showed Mom the sign and she asked me what it said. I told her, “Mirror Lake.” We’re still laughing about it.

We met another ranger that was cleaning lint off of the calcite. He told us it was an endless job. He picked up around four hundred pounds of lint and dead skin cells each year.

We continued on and looked into some passageways that branched off from the path. There was an old wire and wood ladder used for early exploration of the cave that went down into a hole about ninety feet deep.

We saw the “Bottomless Pit” that was one hundred forty feet down to the bottom from where I was standing.

Then we saw a couple of the gypsum blocks that are in the cave. When we got back to where we had eaten lunch, we took the elevator back to the surface. Carlsbad Caverns is the place to go!