caves and such

i happened to be up at 3am watching the planet earth caves episode, and there was this amazing cave - lechugilla (in carlsbad caverns national park NM).

Lechuguilla Cave offered even more than just its extreme size. Cavers were greeted by large amounts of gypsum and lemon-yellow sulfur deposits. A large variety of rare speleothems, some of which had never been seen anywhere in the world, included 20 feet (6.1 m) gypsum chandeliers, 20 feet (6.1 m) gypsum hairs and beards, 15 feet (4.6 m) soda straws, hydromagnesite balloons, cave pearls, subaqueous helictites, rusticles,U-loops and J-loops

(info & 2 photos blw from wikipedia)

more images/map here

(photos blw are from this website)

ryan mcginley's moonmilk

(all images from his site)