A trip down Roaring Hole

- a cave dig in progress

 

The entrance first passed in April 1991 ...

corkscrews down to a squeeze ...

into the "Jet Stream" which passes ...


through a narrow rift to disappear into a collapsed bedding ...


but above is a large walking passage to Jericho (where the walls came tumbling down) and then past a canine skeleton (the dog of Dead Dog Dig or an unlucky fox?) to Fault Chamber and choke where we dug ...

down to a crawl ...

and a climb down to limbo under the right hand wall

a corkscrew down a shaft ...

often used to haul buckets full of rocks from ...
the digging face above a stream which disappears in the floor ...

above which is a crawl which ...


floods in wet weather to ...

the limit at September 6, 1999 ...


now passed and leading to ...


gravelly fill and a solid passage roof with some stals ...


and a sandy floor removed on 22 November as far as the end in this photo - about 2m. It continues ...
via ? to DYO

The photos were taken with a cheap, low resolution digital camera (Praktika PD-100). Apart from eating batteries, this allows spontaneous photos of reasonable quality. The built in flash lights well, if flatly.