We made it out of the Trans-Pecos Texas region to Carlsbad just in time to fully tour the cave. We LOVED the 56 degree temperature with 90 percent humidity after our week in Big Bend Ranch State Park. The cave is as fabulous as ever, with phenomenally weird rock formations that have grown over time simply by dripping water that has calcium in it. The food at Whites City is as awful as expected for a place with a monopoly in the middle of nowhere. We watched the bat flight and were terribly disappointed. No swarm. Last year the students got to see a full blown whorl of about 400,000 bats come out at once.