This shot does not begin to give you an idea of the size and scale of what is going on inside that hill. Those archways are huge. I believe Vikki had a shot taken a couple of days before we arrived where she was on the top and got a snap of Bob walking below. It gives a better idea of what we were seeing. [If you can see the little white shutters on windows in the blue walls, those are about eye level.]

I seem to have developed a fascination with the arched doorways in this fort. Below are thumbnails of some of the smaller ones. The shots that include Tony are in the tunnel/hallway that leads into the interior courtyard of the fort itself. They are MUCH smaller than the ones in the view above. The other little door is on the exterior of the hillside and it was from the left upper side of the arch that I grabbed the one *nature* shot that I could use. Wind wasn't getting me there. :-)

Interesting lighting challenges abounded in this fort.

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The extended arch doorway with Tony in the center appeared so "painterly" even as the real untouched photo...[above has a very small bit of sharpening to compensate for size reduction & color correction, that's all] that I decided I had to grab a crop and do a little cyber painting. The full size version in stashed in with my wallpapers now as well. It had the look of somewhere in an old European castle to me. *smile*

P.S. Those funny streaks you are seeing from the archway are Stalactites...or stalacmites [how DO you spell those things?] that are both actually forming inside the fort walls.