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Peg and Harry await our appointed tour slot
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Our guide, Mick
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The ice cream cone stalagmite
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Flow Stone
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Looking up at the stalactites
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Parallel formations
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Various ceiling formations
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Tour Guide Mick points out details within Crystal Cave
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The profile of Abraham Lincoln
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Ceiling Detail
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Inside Crystal Cave
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The green colors are from algae spores carried in on tourists clothing, and requires periodic cleaning to be removed
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Developing flowstone
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A helictite
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Soda Straw formations hanging from the ceiling
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Stagmites
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Stalagmite formation
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This stalagmite is dry and probably dead
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This helictite is a speleothem found in a limestone cave that changes its axis from the vertical at one or more stages during its growth.
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Looking back from the high point of the cave which is 65 feet below the ground above
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Dripping water is how many of the formations were made
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If you come back in 50,000 years, this may look different
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Majestic formation
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Long shot into the cavern
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Autographs from 1871, before the cave was "protected"
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Nature's beauty
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Cave close-up
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Drapery formations
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Peg and Harry look at the amazing formations
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End view of the Dragon's Wing formation
