2nd August

Vince, Tav, Jake, Nick, Brockers

Arrived at cave and while waiting for the others to turn up added a few rocks to the spoil heap extension wall and packed the bags into bundles, mostly in ‘tens.’ Slipped underground with the packs of bags and had a peek at last session’s progress in CoW, it wasn’t long before I heard the others approaching. It was Nick ‘hell bent’ on getting to the NE extent, AUD area to get digging underway. I followed with some more packs of bags before turning around to join the end of the line as Brockers was close on my heels. He cleared the bags as Nick filled them, Jake hauled them up the slope, Tav moved the spoil across the chamber to the ‘hump’ and I dragged them over. When about 20 bags had piled up, they were shifted along to the entrance, me and Tav then pulled the spoil out to the surface. Back for more.

This time about 30 bags to clear out. I stayed on the surface to start emptying, quickly joined by Tav, and then the next backlog of bags arrived. Today’s total = 76 bags filled, hauled, and emptied and it was now time for the Hunters’ and some refreshments!