Amata (they/she) on Nostr: #Karstmas day 8 One of my first caves in Spain was actually a new cave. We were ...
#Karstmas day 8
One of my first caves in Spain was actually a new cave. We were walking along a old logging road and found a hole, so of course, you climb down *inside* the hole, and it was a cave!
The first room you had to crawl through, but there were these really neat formations I'd never seen before, nor seen since. I called them "Swizzle Sticks" - they were much like soda straws formations but instead of being smooth, had the very crinkled variegated texture to them. I'm not sure how they formed, exactly.
We returned later in the week and surveyed this cave, giving it the name Extra Special Pot (ESP) as a nod to a friend and fellow caver who had recently passed, whose nickname was Eddie Sharp Pencil, or ESP for short. As you can guess, he was a very good project caver.
#karst #cave #caving #geology #formation #formations #stick #straw #cavern #explore #nature
One of my first caves in Spain was actually a new cave. We were walking along a old logging road and found a hole, so of course, you climb down *inside* the hole, and it was a cave!
The first room you had to crawl through, but there were these really neat formations I'd never seen before, nor seen since. I called them "Swizzle Sticks" - they were much like soda straws formations but instead of being smooth, had the very crinkled variegated texture to them. I'm not sure how they formed, exactly.
We returned later in the week and surveyed this cave, giving it the name Extra Special Pot (ESP) as a nod to a friend and fellow caver who had recently passed, whose nickname was Eddie Sharp Pencil, or ESP for short. As you can guess, he was a very good project caver.
#karst #cave #caving #geology #formation #formations #stick #straw #cavern #explore #nature