Vince, Nick, Brockers, Jake, Jon, and Mike
Packed drill/plugs and feathers into tackle bag and loaded into Kangoo along with the previously prepared skips and all the other stuff required for a digging session in HR. All loaded, over the hill towards Wookey Hole. A bright, sunny morning was a welcome change from the recent persistent rain.
At the cave, quickly underground and along to Can of Worms to deal with the boulder left there (4no. holes – 4no. pieces), then back to the ledge where another boulder had been left. This was, similarly, dealt with. As I was packing kit away Nick and Brockers arrived to get digging underway at the current end of CoW.
A little while later Mike arrived and between us, we started to remove spoil back towards the entrance where Jake was waiting, Jon on the surface (Jake and Jon later swapped positions). It was a busy morning and there was not much time to clear the ledge of slumped material the result of last weekend’s prodding! The small decorated ‘grotto’ is just that – small, it doesn’t have much potential for anything else.
Time slips by quickly when you’re busy and, all too soon, it was midday. As expected, the diggers were reluctant to stop, the way forward was quite easy digging and they were happy to continue…but there was spoil to clear from the cave and there were bags to empty.
Today’s count = 103 (or thereabouts) bags filled, hauled, and emptied and about 15 skip loads of rocks in a pile ready to be added to the spoil heap wall.
It was still sunny! To the Hunters’ for some refreshments.