This photo is in Ngilgi cave near Yallingup in the south-west of WA. [Ngilgi is Aboriginal, the ng at the beginning is pronounced the same way we would in long, but if you can't handle that say it Nilgi. The g is hard.] I have great memories of this cave as a kid, it was fun to take my own children there and see how it has changed. In the photo you can see shawls (the bacon type things 
), stalactites, straws and helictites. Straws are how stalactites get started, as a long thin tube. Helictites are twisted and are possibly formed by the way water evaporates and draws other drops along.
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Wow! That is beautiful! Hope the girls enjoyed seeing it
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It’s very interesting. It the upper center it looks almost like eye sockets in the skull of a skeleton bent over to peer out.
I just spotted it! I hadn’t noticed before.
beautiful texture in that shot!
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That is so pretty, I would love to take my daughter to the caves in Arkansas happy WW
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We had such a good time, caves are so different to anything you see above ground.
That is just beautiful
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Would love to see it in person, I can imagine it would be stunning.
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Wow, you got a great variety of formations in that shot. We visited some caves recently, too, that I last saw about 30 years ago. They were just as exciting this time round and of course, the kids were fascinated.
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That is a really cool photo! Did you take it, because taking pics in the dark is not always easy.
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It’s quite well lit with lots of things to lean on. My nocturnal house photos didn’t turn out unfortunately.
very cool…I would love to see that…
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