“Morphing” sunlight marker

This is a real sunlight marker like what we see featured in many fantasy movies. But this is no fantasy! It begins at noon as a perfect circle of light. Over about thirty minutes it starts to morph into a triangle in the same position. Then the point that forms facing the concealed "door" to the right begins to stretch out getting more elongated into a spear of light that after about an hour touches the door. As time passes, the back of the "spear" of light starts to move toward the door from the left giving the illusion the light penetrates the door. This continues until the light disappears entirely. Behind and below this is an entrance to a 100' drop that required rappelling down. Leading to a chasm of interconnected faults, which when followed take us on a three hour decent through huge fissures on a floor constructed of massive pieces of basalt wedged in and paved over to appear to be a solid floor. But as we get deeper we can look up to see the "floor" was only about five feet thick and that we were now on another level about 40' below what we had just been on. This continued deeper, back and forth, level by level another two hundred feet down until we reach the collapsed tomb/ vault entrance and the main "trap".

“Morphing” sunlight marker pointing to concealed entrance.

This is a morphing sunlight marker like what we see featured in many fantasy movies. But this is no fantasy! It begins at noon as a perfect circle of light. Over about thirty minutes it starts to morph into a triangle in the same position. Then the point that forms facing the concealed “door” to the right begins to stretch out getting more elongated into a spear of light that after about an hour touches the door. As time passes, the back of the “spear” of light starts to move toward the door from the left giving the illusion the light penetrates the door. This continues until the light disappears entirely. Behind and below this is an entrance to a 100′ drop that required rappelling down. Leading to a chasm of interconnected faults, which when followed take us on a three hour decent through huge fissures on a floor constructed of massive pieces of basalt wedged in and paved over to appear to be a solid floor. But as we get deeper we can look up to see the “floor” was only about five feet thick and that we were now on another level about 40′ below what we had just been on. This continued deeper, back and forth, level by level another two hundred feet down until we reach the collapsed tomb/ vault entrance and the main “trap”.

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