Grand weekends are centered around Grand Caverns, a most worthy show cave in central Virginia. Sometimes we are in Grand Caverns, cleaning up things and keeping this awesome commercial cave healthy and in good shape,and other times we are doing good deeds in the other caves on the property.
This past weekend I had the opportunity to visit Fountain Cave, on the Grand property. I have been in this cave before, but this was the first time I took a camera in the cave.
The cave is being re-surveyed and mapped at a high level, something I enjoy doing, but for this trip I just did some solo photographs and wasn't part of the survey.
So,here are a few pics of Fountain Cave. Notably, I did all this photography by myself, as others in the cave had other work to do, and thus not the mutli-flash cave photos that make cave pics more interesting.
I started at the back and worked toward the entrance.
This past weekend I had the opportunity to visit Fountain Cave, on the Grand property. I have been in this cave before, but this was the first time I took a camera in the cave.
The cave is being re-surveyed and mapped at a high level, something I enjoy doing, but for this trip I just did some solo photographs and wasn't part of the survey.
So,here are a few pics of Fountain Cave. Notably, I did all this photography by myself, as others in the cave had other work to do, and thus not the mutli-flash cave photos that make cave pics more interesting.
I started at the back and worked toward the entrance.
Fountain Cave has a lot of formations. This pic from near the end of the cave.
Formations in an alcove near the end of the cave
Lots of calcite formations in the alcove near the end of the cave
Along the cave trail in the lower section of the cave
A big stal along the trail
A flowstone pool with active formations nearby
Dave Socky, in charge of mapping the cave, trying to figure out how to draw a very complex bit of the cave
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