Hi Mark,
Even though I haven't been there in years, at the time I worked there, I
wouldn't have called what Carlsbad Caverns has a restaurant...unless dry cold
sandwiches, chips, hot coffee and cocoa are your criteria. Maybe things have
improved in 30 years.
Louise
From: mminton@nmhu.eduTo: Texascavers@texascavers.comDate: Fri, 28 Nov 2008
13:47:56 -0500Subject: [Texascavers] RE: Cavern restaurants of the Caribbean
Jerry Atkinson posted:
>http://travel.spotcoolstuff.com/unusual-restaurant/cavern-mexico-santo-domingo
Which says:
>Pretty much any underground chamber qualifies as a cave. To be a cavern a cave
>must 1) have formed naturally out of rock; and 2) be able to produce
>speleothems, which are those icicle-shaped mineral deposits created by
>dripping water.
By the sound of their definition, any mine could be considered a cave.
Interesting that one of their criteria for a cave to be a cavern is the
presence of speleothems. There are plenty of real caves without them. And
they say the only restaurants in caverns are in the Carribean. What about the
restaurant in Carlsbad Caverns? Maybe that's not fancy enough for them, or is
that closed now?
Mark Minton
