When I get to my mom's, I will try and upload more pics...or at least I will put together a photo album for facebook. We drove South thru New Mexico today. We made a quick stop at Roswell and found out that aliens do exist! They live in Roswell. It's quite the tourist trap, but after about 1/2 hour, we were finished. We headed further south to Carlsbad, NM, where we spent the rest of the day at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. This park is truly amazing...the cave is huge. You descend over 800 feet through the mouth of the cave and see all kinds of beautiful formations- stalictites (from the ceiling) and stalicmites (from the ground), etc. Then we finshed up the evening with the nightly Bat Flight out of the cave. It was incredible to watch the bats spiral out of the cave for more than 20 minutes and fly off to eat for the night. The ranger said the estimated number during this time of year is between 200,000 to 500,000 bats on any given night! Awesome.
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whoa that's a lot of bats! i wonder how much it drops off at other times of the year.
P.S> Are the bats in the cave sleeping while you are walking through it?? Eeek!
Yeah Carlsbad!!! My family is from there. My mom was born there, as well as the first 4 of our family. The caverns are awesome!!!
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