continued from previous report:
Our Christmas Eve dinner featured fire-grilled
frog.I have never cared for frog, but it
was the best I have ever had.
Our border crossing Christmas Day was one of
the easiest I have ever had. We arrived at
the booth with zero cars in front of us, and
they
When travelling in small towns or cities in Mexico, the
easiest way to find a place to send e-mail is to
ask any kid for the:
El cyber
pronounced el ceeber or el sea bird, which
ever is easier for you to remember.
There is usually one in every neighborhood.
The kids will usually point and say
Giant Crystal Cave Comes to Light
Crisscrossed with gems up to 36 feet (11 meters) long, Mexico's Cave of
Crystals looks like nothing so much as Superman's Fortress of Solitude.
That otherworldly appeal-which helped make the cave gallery our fifth most
viewed of 2007-is a big reason we still
http://giantcrystals.strahlen.org/america/naica.htm
includes a Google Earth link!
It is a single huge chamber about 70m in diameter and is still
acessible to geoscientists and even - as far as we know - to the
public.
Road Trip!
On Dec 26, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Mike Quinn wrote:
Giant
Don Arburn wrote:
http://giantcrystals.strahlen.org/america/naica.htm
includes a Google Earth link!
It is a single huge chamber about 70m in diameter and is still
acessible to geoscientists and even - as far as we know - to the public.
Road Trip!
Count me in!
--
Lyndon Tiu
The Cave of the Crystals is not 70 m in diameter. It is more like 20
meters in diameter. See the map in AMCS Activities Newsletter 30. The
original publication of that map in the Italian national caving
magazine and the reprint of the map in the NSS News both had the wrong
scale on the
