texascavers Digest 8 May 2011 22:35:38 -0000 Issue 1306
Topics (messages 17730 through 17735):
Re: more Cookout stuff
17730 by: David
Camera related
17731 by: dlocklear01.gmail.com
Mammoth Cave National Park taking steps to prevent spread of WNS
17732 by: Lee H. Skinner
Cave happenings in Carlsbad
17733 by: George Veni
Bexar Grotto program announcement...
17734 by: Tom Florer
Re: To the TSS webmaster - Butch Fralia - from the cave related links page.
17735 by: Butch Fralia
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Any caver who goes caving on Saturday morning, May 21, and can get to
Camp Happy Hollow
by 9 p.m., we will save you some food. You will get in free and a
hot shower will be waiting for
you. I will have some extra cots, and and a roof over your head.
Also, any cavers travelling from West Texas, Lubbock, Wichita Falls,
out-of-state, etc. will get in free.
Anyone with a valid excuse to get in free, just let me know. ( Like
you shot Bin Laden or something,
equivalent, or discovered the cure for WNS, etc. )
There may be a mid-night movie and popcorn to watch in the lodge.
Hopefully there will be a blender and a table with a few beverages.
I doubt we will run out of wine, or soft-drinks.
If anybody wants to bring milk and cereal for breakfast Sunday
morning, that would be appreciated.
We might have a raffle. ( definitely not an iPad 2, but something cool )
Most people will leave Saturday night and the rest very early on
Sunday morning. But I plan to be there most
of the day on Sunday, so please let me know if you can come out Sunday
only, and maybe we can
throw something on the grill.
Please add the link below to your Facebook wall, or pass it along:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198886710150583
David Locklear
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Best Buy has the Sony a230 camera on clearance for only $ 360.
Looks like a good bargain for a caving camera.
No idea if that is every store or just the one I am at.
The additional flash is $ 130.
I think telephoto lens is $ 250
And another $ 250 for a 16 mm lens
David Locklear
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
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They are using "bio mats". Anybody know what chemicals are in them?
See the article
http://www.mlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2011/05/mammoth_cave_national_park_tak.html
by Victor Skinner (no relation to me).
Lee Skinner
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Here are a couple of news stories from Carlsbad:
Unveiling of the Jim White sculpture:
http://www.currentargus.com/ci_18013872?IADID=Search-www.currentargus.com-ww
w.currentargus.com
Opening of the Underground of Enchantment Lechuguilla Cave 3D photo exhibit:
http://www.currentargus.com/ci_18018457
I don't recall seeing either on the Texas list (and Texans were spotted at
both events) and I only recall the report on the Lech exhibit on the New
Mexico list.
George
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At tomorrow's Bexar Grotto meeting, Alan Montemayor will be presenting slides
of his recent trip, where he and his wife Cheryl Hamilton spent 49
days in South Africa,
Lesotho, Swaziland,
Botswana, and
Namibia.
They did a self-drive safari in 4WD Toyota
pickup trucks equipped with rooftop tents. Along the way, they visited shelter
caves in
Lesotho and
Namibia that contained rock art from
ancient Africans, visited Kruger
National Game
Park in South
Africa , Etosha
Game Park in
Namibia , the red sand dunes
of the Namib Desert and Fish
Canyon (the Grand Canyon
of Namibia). We can expect to see photos of wild animals including Lion,
Leopard, Cheetah,
Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Giraffe, Ostrich, Hyena,
Zebra,
Kudu, Wildebeest, Warthog, and many other hoofed beasts.
A good time will be had by all in attendance...the Bexar Grotto meets at
Chester's Hamburgers (NW corner of Hwy 281 and Thousand Oaks Dr) at 7:00 pm on
the second and fourth Monday of each month.
-Tom
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Does this name ring a bell with anyone?
From: Wanda L. Drisoll [mailto:wdrisc1...@suddenlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 4:54 PM
To: bfra...@maverickgrotto.org
Subject: To the TSS webmaster - Butch Fralia - from the cave related links
page.
I am seeking information regarding the death of a cave explorer in the
1970's, maybe in Hays or Kendall County. Could you share
any information with me regarding the decedent, james Beall?
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