WHILE in Crystal Cave visitors can see jewel-like sparkles on the ceilings along with stalactites and stalagmites and other formations.
A fascinating part of the tour is guessing what some of many cave decorations resemble – one looks like Bart Simpson another resembles Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean and your guide will point out many others.
Visitors can also see a shelter built after the Meckering earthquake and the root of a tuart tree that is – according to a Department of Environment and Conservation booklet titled Discovering Caves of Western Australia – about 13m below the surface.
During a tour of Crystal Cave visitors get to hear about how caves in the Yanchep National Park formed from underground streams flowing from the Gnangara mound.
A sobering part of the tour is realising how much the water levels in the cave have fallen since visitors first crawled through its then muddy streams to reach the best chambers.
