| There were a number of places in the tunnels where something picked up the light from our headlamps with quite a glow, almost like it contained some element of phosphorescence. Here Elizabeth checks out an neophyte stalagtite – or is it stalagmite? – that will be fully formed in a couple hundred thousand years. We told jokes about Disney running tours in here in the year 4500 or so. I told a lot of jokes. It kept me from thinking about being over a 1000 feet below a ridgeline, in an abandoned water tunnel, walking in water. |