A while back it was brought to my attention that I have posted a lot of animals from Borneo, but not so many cave pics. I will try to add more cave pics into the mix, and here is a start.
Joyce Lundberg crossing the one deep spot while returning from the back of the cave.
Deer Cave (Gua Payau and Gua Rusa in the local languages) in the Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, has often been noted as the largest cave passage in the world. Recently a cave in Vietnam has challenged this assertion with massive passage size as well, but not the point of this post.
This photo was taken in 2008, and shows Joyce Lundberg entering a deep pool in the main Deer Cave stream. This was the only place in the cave where we really had to get wet much above the knees.
Of note, this photo was taken about 400 meters from the rear entrance to the cave as seen in the background (that's a quarter mile away!).
And, we were there, in this fantastic giant cave, to do some science. If you have an interest in stromatolites, then you should read about what we discovered and learned about such from the trip at:
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/wmkeckscience/69/
Sorry this is not the whole article, but the abstract does give a lot of details.
This photo was taken in 2008, and shows Joyce Lundberg entering a deep pool in the main Deer Cave stream. This was the only place in the cave where we really had to get wet much above the knees.
Of note, this photo was taken about 400 meters from the rear entrance to the cave as seen in the background (that's a quarter mile away!).
And, we were there, in this fantastic giant cave, to do some science. If you have an interest in stromatolites, then you should read about what we discovered and learned about such from the trip at:
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/wmkeckscience/69/
Sorry this is not the whole article, but the abstract does give a lot of details.
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