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tw05baller
07-08-2006, 12:09 AM
does anyone know where it is?
it seems like you have to be in some society to see it.
Pistons < Spurs
07-08-2006, 12:23 AM
Bracken Cave is 960 m to the southwest of Natural Bridge Caverns. The entrance is in a doline 30 m in diameter and 10 m deep. The cave extends N 18o W for 130 m as a single large passage, averaging 20 m in width and 10 m in height. Severed by collapse of the doline at the entrance, the cave may extend to the northwest, but to date no such passage has been discovered.


http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/balcones_escarpment/images/a.jpg



hope that helps ...
Pistons < Spurs
07-08-2006, 12:46 AM
LMAO! Bracken Cave is now on discovery channels 'dirty jobs'!
Zombie
07-08-2006, 12:49 AM
Largest Bat Cave in the world!
jman3000
07-08-2006, 01:04 AM
wtf? really?
Zombie
07-08-2006, 01:19 AM
wtf? really?
UHHHHHH, Yeah! :lol
At peak time, there are 40million+ bats in that cave!
boutons_
07-08-2006, 07:21 AM
20M bats:

http://www.gardenridge.net/garden-ridge-bracken-cave.htm

http://www.batcon.org/batsmag/v10n3-1.html

"Collisions with other bats or cave walls can be fatal. An emergency landing is certain death; the floor is teaming with millions of carnivorous dermestid beetles that can reduce a young bat to a cleaned skeleton within a few minutes."
PakiDan
07-08-2006, 09:42 AM
Isn't Carlsbad Cavern in NM a larger bat cave?????
jman3000
07-08-2006, 11:11 AM
Isn't Carlsbad Cavern in NM a larger bat cave?????

I've visited there a couple times... and that place is pretty huge.. especially the mouth of the cave... but maybe Carlsbad is just the biggest in terms of size of the cave and this one is bigger in terms of population of bat?
baseline bum
07-08-2006, 01:54 PM
I've been to both Carlsbad and Natural Bridge, and Natural Bridge has a higher concentration of bats from what I've seen.
MannyIsGod
07-08-2006, 02:01 PM
The bats show up everyday on the weather radar. Its weird shit.
tw05baller
07-09-2006, 07:57 PM
LMAO! Bracken Cave is now on discovery channels 'dirty jobs'!

thats why i was asking.
ChumpDumper
07-09-2006, 08:08 PM
Has anyone been to the old railroad tunnel between Comfort and Fredricksburg?
travis2
07-10-2006, 06:34 AM
Isn't Carlsbad Cavern in NM a larger bat cave?????

No. Carlsbad is a bunch of hype.
travis2
07-10-2006, 06:34 AM
The bats show up everyday on the weather radar. Its weird shit.

Seen it...always have to check the clock if I'm checking in the evening...