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The first quarter-mile of the cave was known to local ranch-hands by the early 1900s. It was known by the name Mayfield Cave, after the landowner, Stanley Mayfield. [4] In 1955, Stanley gave permission to four cavers from Dallas, who discovered a further seven miles, including what are now considered the most scenic areas.
Sea lions with pups outside the caves. Sea Lion Caves is a connected system of sea caves and caverns open to the Pacific Ocean in the U.S. state of Oregon. They are located 11 miles (18 km) north of Florence on U.S. Highway 101, about midpoint on the 400 miles (640 km) of Oregon Coast. In this area, Highway 101 follows a steep and undeveloped ...
The Underwater Preserve protects a network of limestone sea caves off Port Austin. Near Port Austin is the largely depopulated former town of Grindstone City , where grindstones were quarried. Some of the specialized stones were lost overboard near the quarries and can be seen underwater as of 2009.
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Michigan Underwater Preserves. Michigan Underwater Preserves or Michigan Bottomland Preserves are protected areas of the Great Lakes on Michigan's coast. The thirteen designated areas, comprising a surface area of over 7,000 square miles (18,000 km 2), are considered to be "Underwater museums" and serve to protect concentrations of shipwrecks, unique geologic features and other submerged sites ...
Houghton Point is a cape in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, in the United States. [1] History. Houghton Point was named for Douglass Houghton, an explorer of the ...
The Ovens Natural Park in Feltzen South is part of the fairhaven site of a Gold Rush over a century ago. "The Ovens Natural Park" is a privately owned 190 acre pristine reserve of coastal forest, located on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, along the scenic Lighthouse Route.
MUSKEGON, MI. — It was back in early winter 2015 when we had just recorded the coldest February on record in West Michigan. The ice on Lake Michigan at/near the shore was about 12 to 18 inches ...