Carlsbat Box LbNA #44113 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 19, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Carlsbad |
| County: | Eddy |
| State: | New Mexico |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Aspen  |
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| Found by: | Army_Scout |
| Last found: | Mar 18, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFar |
| Last edited: | Oct 19, 2008 |
THIS BOX HAS GONE MISSING. -ASPEN
The bat is the symbol of happiness in many parts of the world. A bat is the only mammal that can fly. Its scientific name is Chiroptera (Ki-ROP-ter-ah), meaning hand-wing.
Visitors to Carlsbad Caverns arrive by way of U.S. Highway 62/180 from either Carlsbad, New Mexico (23 miles to the northeast) or El Paso, Texas (150 miles to the west). A scenic 7-mile (11.3 km) drive, winding up Walnut Canyon drive, leads from the park gate at Whites City to the visitor center and cavern entrance.
For this box, all you need to find is the sign at the park gates in White City. Stand under the National Park sign, with your back to it, facing the southeast, take 18 steps forward. There is a spot where a rock trail goes between 2 shrubs on your left. Look up and there is a short and tall radio tower at the top of the hill. From this point take 14 steps toward the radio towers and stop. To your right will be a large white rock and the box is at its base, covered in smaller rocks. Be careful of the Tarbush shrub, it has thorns shaped like the claws of a cat, and they will get you. Also there are plenty of prickly pear cactus around so step wisely. (The specialty stamp was purchased 750 feet (230 m) below the main entrance in the Caverns underground gift shop.)
Once your have enjoyed the beauty of the caverns, if the bats haven’t migrated yet, don’t miss the evening bat flight from the natural entrance, it is a spectacular sight. Each evening in summer, nearly 400,000 Brazilian (aka Mexican) free-tail bats exit the main entrance of the cave in search of a smorgasbord of insects for dinner.
Return Flights The daily pre-dawn return of the bats is different from the evening exit flights but are just as impressive. Early risers can see/hear the bats as they re-enter Carlsbad Cavern with spectacular dives from heights of hundreds of feet. Individual bats diving in from every direction may reach speeds of 40 km/h (25 mph) or more. If you sit quietly it sounds like someone zipping up a tent, zip, zip, zip, zip… hundreds of times past your head.
Aspen and Cuddlebug would like to thank their girl scout troop, “The Royal Tree Sniffers,” for help with the placement of this box. We girl scouts would like to remind you to please carry out more trash than you carry in!
The bat is the symbol of happiness in many parts of the world. A bat is the only mammal that can fly. Its scientific name is Chiroptera (Ki-ROP-ter-ah), meaning hand-wing.
Visitors to Carlsbad Caverns arrive by way of U.S. Highway 62/180 from either Carlsbad, New Mexico (23 miles to the northeast) or El Paso, Texas (150 miles to the west). A scenic 7-mile (11.3 km) drive, winding up Walnut Canyon drive, leads from the park gate at Whites City to the visitor center and cavern entrance.
For this box, all you need to find is the sign at the park gates in White City. Stand under the National Park sign, with your back to it, facing the southeast, take 18 steps forward. There is a spot where a rock trail goes between 2 shrubs on your left. Look up and there is a short and tall radio tower at the top of the hill. From this point take 14 steps toward the radio towers and stop. To your right will be a large white rock and the box is at its base, covered in smaller rocks. Be careful of the Tarbush shrub, it has thorns shaped like the claws of a cat, and they will get you. Also there are plenty of prickly pear cactus around so step wisely. (The specialty stamp was purchased 750 feet (230 m) below the main entrance in the Caverns underground gift shop.)
Once your have enjoyed the beauty of the caverns, if the bats haven’t migrated yet, don’t miss the evening bat flight from the natural entrance, it is a spectacular sight. Each evening in summer, nearly 400,000 Brazilian (aka Mexican) free-tail bats exit the main entrance of the cave in search of a smorgasbord of insects for dinner.
Return Flights The daily pre-dawn return of the bats is different from the evening exit flights but are just as impressive. Early risers can see/hear the bats as they re-enter Carlsbad Cavern with spectacular dives from heights of hundreds of feet. Individual bats diving in from every direction may reach speeds of 40 km/h (25 mph) or more. If you sit quietly it sounds like someone zipping up a tent, zip, zip, zip, zip… hundreds of times past your head.
Aspen and Cuddlebug would like to thank their girl scout troop, “The Royal Tree Sniffers,” for help with the placement of this box. We girl scouts would like to remind you to please carry out more trash than you carry in!