Carlsbad Caverns

Today we visited Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad, New Mexico. There are different tours available with varying degrees of difficulty. The original tour that we chose was booked, so we decided to take a 2 hour self- guided tour of the “ big room”.


It was really nice exploring the cave on our own. We were able to go at our own place and the kids were able to pretend that they were the first explorers of the cave. Because the cave is so large, we didn’t run into many people.
We were hoping to see the bat flight at dusk (hundreds of thousands of Mexican Free-tail Bats leave the cave at night to feed on insects) but this time of year they’re not all back yet (they winter in Mexico) and last year Carlsbad had a fire and this year they’re in a drought so insects are not as plentiful. So the only evidence of Mexican Free-tail Bats was 45,000 year old bat guano. Today it was 103 degrees, so after getting back to the camper we went swimming and counted jackrabbits. We saw eight. Tomorrow we are headed to Santa Fe.

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Because of poor WiFi quality at this campground we will not be able to update the photo gallery with more of today's photos until tomorrow from Santa Fe where hopefully the bandwidth is wider!