Monday, November 23, 2009

Kentucky

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Down we go.  Into the world's biggest system of caves.  Over 365 miles of cave, twice as large as number two.  Mammoth Cave National Park was quite the treat.

 

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Lucky for us, sandstone has protected the caves from stalactites and stalagmites that would have slowly closed the caves.  Instead, ancient rivers eroded the limestone unabated for thousands of years.

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