Caving Margaret River 2008
Posted on 13 Feb 2008 |
With Jon away, Jude joins Alex, Eve and Quentin on a trip with Ian and Cameron to the caves in Margaret River. A fantastic weekend with a big tiger snake in our hut feasting on the rats, I am happy we slept outside under the stars!
We visit 5 caves: Bridal, Dingo and I forgot the other names. Bridal was the one with the abseil and big ascend. Dingo was the one where we entered through an awesome chimney and played around getting lost in and around the big boulders. So much fun! The last cave on the Sunday was the one with the creek flowing through which meant on our knees through the mud and even at one point on our bellies!

the hut where we were staying

getting ready to abseil into Bridal

Alex abseiling into Bridal

snake in the cave

Alex jumaring out of Bridal

can you see Jude at the bottom of the cave as she starts the jumar up to the top?

going up

Jude nearly at the top

made it, hard work that!

amazing stalactites and stalagmites in the caves

wedding cake

Ian explaining where the water level used to be

going down the chimney into Dingo

playing around in the maze

don’t eat too many pies before you go caving…

stunning

amazing stalactites

close up

amazing shapes

defying gravity!!

so thin they are translucent

different style cave, this time lots of mud

and very low passages

Jude on her belly through the keyhole

bit muddy, but so much fun!

we found a frog in the cave, probably loving all the mud

Alex squeezing through

Jude disappearing

outside again, that was awesome!!!