Vince, Jon, Jake, Nick, Tav, and Mike
Met with the team at the farm this weekend so that they could sign a card for the farmer and family (only Brockers was absent – so an ‘X’ was signed for him!), and a seasonal goodwill gesture was delivered. Access to the cave from the farm makes life so much easier and we are extremely grateful.
Time to go digging. A tongue-in-cheek suggestion to dig at the far NE extent in AUD area was met with derision. It would most likely have been a rather soggy and squalid experience given the amount of recent rain! Can of Worms it was!
Tav and Mike were digging (at present Can of Worms remains remarkably dry), Jon and I were the underground support team, with Nick and Jake on the surface. It was a slower start to get things underway, so I took the opportunity to take a look at the current conditions in the NE extent, Trick or Treat/AUD area, and as expected it was wet!
Back at CoW, things settled into a steady rate, and all were kept reasonably occupied. Whilst poking about with a bar Tav opened a small ‘hole’ in the floor about 150mm length x 50mm width, and as digging progressed, the ‘hole’ developed into something quite interesting – c.500mm length x c.75mm width, and of an undetermined depth. The NE side appears to be solid rock, a lower continuation of the rift wall, to the SW seems to be larger boulders but this needs further work to be certain. It is possible the ‘hole’ is a space between the solid wall and boulder/fine-grained sediment infill of the rift. Time will tell; there’s a lot more clearance to be done before an idea of what’s going on can be established. A good, positive development though!
About 60 bags were filled, hauled, and emptied and just a few token rocks today were added to the spoil heap wall. On the surface, a lot of tidying had been done – leaves cleared away, steps re-cut, etc.
Time to make our way to the Hunters’ for some refreshments.