High Hopes, Tower Place, and Castrovalva


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  1. Between the camera and the caver is a 250' drop called Hotlanta Well, inside a room called Underground Atlanta.

  2. Above Underground Atlanta is the most impressive dripstone area in the cave, Tower Place.

  3. Large columns and stals in Tower Place.

  4. This aquamarine pool contains the Breast of Venus,

  5. Some of the more massive columns in Tower Place.

  6. Colorful flowstone just inside Tower Place.

  7. Tower place also contains some bizarrely eroded stals, such as these alien twins.

  8. Pretty patterns in an eroding stal in Tower Place. Note the drill-hole on top.

  9. High Hopes region, which begins with a fine borehole in boneyard.

  10. Subaqueous helictites.

  11. Lake Aqua Velva lies at the foot of a long flowstone slope known as Ultra Primo.

  12. Near Vesuvius is an aragonite-tipped straw I call "The Tickler".

  13. Vesuvius is a chamber named for this eruption through its flowstone floor, caused by expansion of clay.

  14. The rest of Vesuvius is a well decorated area, strictly "boots-off".

  15. Beyond Vesuvius is the Jungle Room, named for its forest of soda straws, war-club stals, and fat helictites.

  16. A 10' tall shield in the Jungle Room.

  17. Lake Castrovalva, below the Chandelier Ballroom.

  18. On the far shore is a passage leading to a spectacular chamber.

  19. Most of this chamber is floored with ankle deep water over shelfstone, with several "cut-outs" into deeper water

  20. One of the largest pieces of shelfstone anyhwere on the planet is at the back of the chamber.

 
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Created: November 10, 1995
Author: Dave Bunnell
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