Next up are two interior images showing the nice geological features.
Luckily this cave is still open and is on my list of things to see and do.
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I've been to a few caves/caverns in my day and many of them had that homey entrance/building next to them. Mercer Caverns in Calaveras County, California is one that comes to mind.
Very cool!
It's changed dramatically! Not homey any more, almost a tourist trap. It would have been so cool to see it back in the early days!
Bill in Denver
Meh it's just a cave. Yeah my favorite part of the tour is when they tell you it was named because the holes in the rock made a howling noise in the wind - and when they built the visitors center it blocked the wind so it doesn't do it any more. Genius!
I went through the cave when I was a child back in the 1960, and I remember it was a wonderland of colored lights turning the different rock formations lime green or pink, purple--every color of the rainbow. Naturally as a child, I took all that for granted and just automatically assumed those were the real colors.
I went back a few years ago, and the colored lights were gone, and the rock was now boring greys and tans. I told the tour guide they made a huge mistake and they need go back to the colors. She looked at me like I was a whore in church, and told me in no uncertain terms that it would never happen.
I'm guessing that the colored lights were traditional theatre gels. However, I can't help but think of the Rainbow Caverns at Disneyland. In that case, the waterfalls and fountains had fluorescent dyes of six colors that were illuminated by longwave ultraviolet light (UV-A, "blacklight" such as used on posters). The dyes and lamps came from Ultra-Violet Products of Pasadena (and later San Gabriel and other locations), CA. They ran the Mineral Hall shop in the early years of the attraction (1956-1963).
LOVE cave of the Winds! Thanks so much for posting this!
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