54264. Breg at Laze, where it is possible to cross the Unica river during the dry season.
Most images are approximately 768 x 1024 pixels in size, numbers in front of the picture descriptions are serial numbers of the original photo files. Jože Stražišar, of the Karlovica Caving Society (Jamarsko društvo Karlovica) contributed to the success of the excursion in many ways; the names in the cave were in several instances given by the author.
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54264. Breg at Laze, where it is possible to cross the Unica river during the dry season.
54265. Rapids on Unica, where it flows over the barrier, out of Planinska jama
54266. Entrance to the Škratovka cave near the Haasberg castle
54267. The confluence of at least ten springs, which after heavy rain, this time was such a time, flow from the hill to the left and right of the cave.
54268. View of Lake Cerknica from the lookout point Cvinger
54270. The cave gained wider fame in 1921 when a newspaper article praised its extraordinary beauty. The article had serious consequences, in 1923 the cave trail was made and during this work a large part of its stalactite decoration was destroyed. Even the trail itself was paved with broken stalactites in some places. Several local dignitaries and their friends adorned their gardens with stalactites from the cave, and stalactites from this cave were also sold in front of the Postojna Cave in the 19th century. Only the depicted curtain remains from the stalactite wall in the middle of the cave hall. Here it is shown from the east side...
54272. ... and here from the west.
54275. A quite deep rimstone pool (the distance from the far left corner to the far right is 19 cm), just below the entrance to the cave. The waves are from the water drops that fall into it every few seconds.
54277. Years ago, the reconstruction of the road around the lake was carried out, and on this occasion they also decided to remove a sizeable slope at the place where the road crosses the rocky outcrop, on which Karlovec Castle once stood. For this purpose, approximately one ton of explosives was placed in holes in the road at a distance of several tens of meters. The engineers were not aware that there was a cave under the road at this place and that the ceiling was only about ten meters thick. The tremors from the explosion caused part of the ceiling in the photo to collapse. The size of the cavity caused by the explosion is about five meters (diagonally left-right).
54281. The biggest rock that fell from the ceiling is in the middle bottom of the photo. It crushed the stalagmites in the place where it first fell (to the right of the person in the photo), grinded them into sand. The rock is now turned upside down, its upper part used to be the ceiling of the cave.
54284. Triangular rock above the passage to the Lower Hall of the cave
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