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Click on the picture for a 83Kb JPG photo of what WAS one of the most beautiful displays of
crystal encrusted straws anywhere! This area is totally devistated -
not one straw remains. A photo showing the current situation appears below. This photograph was taken in Calgardup Cave in the South-West of WA in
1903 or before by an unknown photographer. It was scanned from a postcard kindly loaned for the purpose by a Western Australian collector of postcards, Mike Kouwen. See the PostCard Page for more old postcard cave photos. |
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Click on the picture for a 63Kb JPG photo of what IS the worst case of blatant vandalism that I am aware of. This photograph was matched to the area of the postcard in the previous photo of Calgardup Cave!!! AARRRRRRHHHH! The photographs are not exactly matching as the exact direction of the photographs are not the same but the large stalagmite in the lower left corner of the photographs matches exactly with the one in the postcard. Other features in the postcard were matched as well such as the obvious ridge in the floor in the mid-ground of the postcard. What a tragedy. |
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Stalactite specimens of BLUE ARAGONITE which have just been discovered in China ?? (16 Jul 2003) Fantastic and Sad all in one. They were "mined" so they could be sold. What a natural wonder this cave must have been !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Makes the blue stalactites at Cliefden Caves NSW look a bit small and insignificant. Notes from Garry K. Smith |
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Over 100 years of graffiti on speleothems in a cave at Augusta (AU1) in Western Australia. Photograph by Jay Anderson.
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Graffiti on speleothems and broken speleothems in Drovers Cave (J1) in Western Australia. Photographs by Rauleigh Webb.
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Click on the picture for a 70Kb JPG photo,on the left, of the now broken Christmas Tree previously of Dingo Cave in the South-West of WA. The 50Kb close up of the Christmas Tree is on the right. This Black and White photo was taken in 1981. Unfortunately 2001 sees it damaged by permitted visitors. It is hoped that repairs can be made to the snapped off tree but it will never be returned to its undamaged state. Photo by Rauleigh Webb. |
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Click on the picture for a 77Kb JPG photo of some spray paint and carving vandalism!! Photo was taken in El Mogote, in Guerreo, México by Guillermo. |
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Click on the picture for a 111Kb JPG photo of some of the worst spray paint vandalism in a cave!! Photo was taken in Buckner's Cave in Monroe County, Indiana by Chris Kollmar. Chris indicates that the spray paint obscures a once present "historical" signature and date "L.V. Cushing 1775". Was it this very early signature that prompted more signatures and led to todays disaster? |
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Click on the picture for another 111Kb JPG photo of more spray paint vandalism in Buckner's Cave. This time with some cavers for scale!! Photo was taken in Buckner's Cave in Monroe County, Indiana by Chris Kollmar. |
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Click on the picture for a 154Kb JPG photo of a severely vandalised Illinois cave entrance Photo was taken in the entrance to an Illinois cave by Steve Taylor. Photo is copyright to Steve Taylor. |
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Click on the picture for a 49Kb JPG photo of Chris Goodsell contemplating the red paint graffiti splattering the walls in Drovers Cave (WA). This gross vandalism has been removed by scraping off a "layer" of limestone. |
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Click on the picture for a 44Kb
JPG photo of graffiti carved into the limestone wall of Drovers Cave (WA). This graffiti has also been removed by scraping off a "layer" of limestone. It is hoped that this second act of vandalism is the lesser of two evils? |
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Click on the picture for a 47Kb JPG photo of a wall of vandalism from Signature Cave on the East coast of Australia. What can I say? |
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Click on the picture for a 31Kb JPG photo of "The Halo". This wonderful helictite was destroyed in the early 1960's full story available soon. This is the only know photograph of "The Halo" - thanks to Bill Crowle for a scan of the original photo and to Peter Bridge for donating a copy of Bill's photo to the WASG Slide Library.
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Click on the picture for a 66Kb JPG photo of a cluster of cave pearls that used to be at the base of the long stairway in Giants Cave. The day following this photograph the cave pearls were removed from the cave. |
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Click on the picture for a 53Kb JPG photo of what used to be some beautiful calcified drip holes in the Ball Room in Giants Cave. Unfortunately they were very close to the main track through the cave and have been crushed to "death" by the passage of more than 35,000 uncontrolled visitors each year! |
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Click on the picture for a 29Kb JPG photo of Mullinger's Swamp near Naracoorte, South Australia. Here local residents have "enhanced" a wetland by blocking the runaway hole into the karst watertable. Photograph courtesy of Elery Hamilton-Smith. |
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Click on the picture for a 70Kb JPG photo of Signatures from 1882 in Blanche Cave in South Australia. |
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Second exposure of the same subject. |
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Click on the picture for a 92Kb JPG
photo of general graffitti in Blanche Cave in South Australia. |
