Penny Boston, the cave environment (including outside of the cave), snottites, strange formations such as biovermiculations. 2003-09-05

All of these photos are copyrighted by Kenneth Ingham. These photos may be used without fee for non-profit work which directly supports the cave owner or cave conservation under the following circumstances:

Photo credit is clearly given in a manner similar to:
Photo Copyright 2002 by Kenneth Ingham, used by permission.
If the use is in a printed form, please send two copies to the Kenneth.
If the use is electronic and available on the Internet, please send the URL or other location information to the photographer.

All other uses of these pictures require that you contact me at photos a i-pi . com (replace a with @). I are not unreasonable about using my photos. Please do not steal them.

Higher-resolution versions and versions without the copyright notice are available; contact me for them.

Click on the photo to see a larger photo.


Leaf cutter ants on ground near entrance to Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Note the trail of leaves moving on the backs of the ants.	Penny Boston views biovermiculations on rock walls of entrance, to left of (east) stairs leading down into Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.


Closer view of wall detail from photos 2305-2310. Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.	Closer view of wall detail from photos 2305-2310. Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.


Closer view of wall detail from photos 2305-2310. Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.	Closer view of wall detail from photos 2305-2310. Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.


Closer view of wall detail from photos 2305-2310. Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.	Closer view of wall detail from photos 2305-2310. Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.


Closer view of wall detail from photos 2305-2310. Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.	Closeup view of biovermiculations grading into rimstone dams on formation in passage parallel to Ragu, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.


Closeup view of rimstone dams on formation in passage parallel to Ragu, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant. SEM stub for scale (1 cm in diameter).	Further back view of rimstone dams on formation in passage parallel to Ragu, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant. SEM stub for scale (1 cm in diameter).


Tan mud lacework (on right) grading into lithified lacework and rimstone dams on formation in passage parallel to Ragu, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabaso.	Closer view of tan mud lacework (on right) grading into lithified lacework and rimstone dams on formation in passage parallel to Ragu, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.


Closer view of tan mud biovermiculations (on right) grading into lithified vermiculations and rimstone dams on formation in passage parallel to Ragu, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.	Closer view of tan lithified lacework bracketing gray-black mud lacework (in center) on formation in passage parallel to Ragu, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.


Spider webs on biovermiculations on lower left of formation in passage parallel to Ragu, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.	Spider webs with snottite water dripping off, near where Ragu and the parallel passage join, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco,


Spider webs with snottite water dripping off, near where Ragu and the parallel passage join, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.	Snottite with midges and spider webs with snottite water dripping off, near where Ragu and the parallel passage join, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant.


Snottite with midges and spider webs with snottite water dripping off, near where Ragu and the parallel passage join, Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico. Penny Boston, flash assistant. Won a green ribbon (Honorable Mention) at the 2007 NSS Print Salon.	Leaf cutter ants on tree near entrance to Cueva de las Sardinas, Tabasco, Mexico.