Friday, July 9, 2010

Mushrooms and Caves of Siberia

A Photographer takes fascinating pictures of various fungi and lichens around Chelyabinsk Ural area. He's always looking for more underground wonders, and various natural caves of the region (for example around the river Sim and Sukhaya Atya, which are ecologically clean, for a change) provide fantastic scenery and exploration opportunities:















Cave Ponornaya (Satkinski region) has a sizable population of rare brown long-eared bat (Plecotus Auritus):









These bats live in a sort of H. G. Giger's "Alien" interiors:





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