Well, firstly,
Mea culpa. I’ve completely forgotten you over the past several months. My apologies. I honestly have no excuse whatsoever. Just a general lack of motivation. In times past, I would sit at the bar on Sunday morning (ish) and craft a blog message for my faithful followers, which I’m completely certain have all disappeared by now. Now that every day is weekend, it’s completely fallen off the map.
Anyway, as the move in day approached last year, we started looking at things to do in the area, Northern Virginia, that might not be so easy once we were in South-Eastern Virginia. I pinged Meghan to see if’n she wanted to take a ride to see Luray Caverns. We hadn’t done that since 2008, so a visit was due. She was willing, so we got in Scarlett and hit the road.
It’s a nice drive to Luray as shown below. We stopped at the Ollie Cat Cafe for lunch and made our way to the caverns.
Oh my. The facility bears no resemblance to the one that was here some 15 years ago. I guess that shouldn’t be a great surprise, but still the difference was a bit of a shock.
What was here 15 years ago was literally a little house whereas now there is the great big facility. I guess business has been good… LOL.
Anyway, we paid the admission fee and entered the caverns.
As this is, allegedly, a photography blog, the equipment I had with me today was the Fuji X-Pro2 with the XF35mm f1.4 lens mounted. In my pocket was the XF18mm f2.0. My experiences with caves in the past had indicated the 35 was a bit long to capture the beauty of the caverns. And it was to be so today. It was a very short period before the 35 came off and the 18 was mounted.
As there were some 150+ images that made it through the culling process, I’m going to post a handful here and then the rest HERE. As to how I picked what to put here, I posted only images with walkways in them. Howze that for esoteric? Truth be told they are all very good, so go have a look at the rest.
I won’t yammer on endlessly about these. Suffice it to say it’s an active cave full of stalactites and stalagmites. It is really cool though and if you are into caves, I think it’s a good one.
And this is placed at the exit of the cave.
So that’s all for now. Next time we can talk about a lovely Renaissance Festival in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Cheers,
