Amazing Giant Crystals

I came across this article titled The Mega Crystals of Naica Mine on Yahoo. The picture looked amazing hence I read the entire article. This is one place I'd love to visit and I am pretty sure every caver would love to explore. I have seen crystal caves in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra in India but none of them this huge. These crystals are easily the largest in the world and it proves once again that nature is capable of wonders that human mind can't even imagine....



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Cave Home Up for Sale!!!

People have strange tastes and fancies and when they live in the US, the eccentricities seem to go a little haywire. This is what happened to a family in Festus, Missouri (MO), US. They bought a cave on a 3 acre property and remodeled the grotto into a home and a fancy one at that. The cave has hardwood floors, fancy kitchen cabinets and all the comforts of any city home.

But unfortunately the owners are now caught up in the home mortgage crises like most homeowners in the US are and may lose the home to their bankers if they don't come up with the money within 60 days. So what do they do? they have put up the home (cave) for sale on Ebay for $300,000. They are trying to raise money through friends and family to keep the home. Here is my best wishes for them to raise money to tide over the crises and continue to live in a dwelling which they have so painstakingly crafted in the lap of nature.

More Caving Pictures

Unfortunately Bill Steele was only person with the camera and I was usually quite far from him in the cave. So these pictures depict different people doing different things in the cave. He just sent me some more pictures of the caving trip.. here they are...