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| Dave gets to experience 40 degree water! <grin> | While Lil takes the mud bank around! | Got a few of the bats on the fly! |
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| pretty cool! | One just starting off! | Look what comes out of holes in the ground! |
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| We're all here... now hike back the 3/4 mile to the cars! | Nice road, but the gate is locked and it's so dry we don't want to chance a prairie fire! | Snack time before heading to Train Tunnel |
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| Then Lil watches the cars while the guys go to Train Tunnel | It was so warm outside that it took awhile to get the thermo to cave temp! | Train tunnel - it's name is a nice hollow like a train tunnel looks like! |
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| We come here for this guy! Big Ear Bats! | Without flash, he blends with the cave wall. | Here our long ears (corynorhinus townsendii palesens) curls his ears. |
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| And right next tom him were a couple of myotis | JT curled up in a small room | Those are big ears!! |
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| On the way out of train tunnel | Our final entrance... Glade entrance | Checking for snakes before going in. |
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| Dave gets to do Homestead entrance (lots of climbing to get there) | We found a baby rattlesnake | But we make this little side trip for another batch of long ears. |
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| And they didn't disappoint us... three of them... | You have to look at both sides sometimes to get a real count. | Then back to glade entrance where the big mats usually cover entire sections of wall. |
