Vince, Jake, Nick, Brockers, Tav, Mike, and good to see Sam Batstone again!
At the cave, ahead of the others, cleared some more vegetation and prepared ground to further extend the spoil heap wall.
A strong team assembled again this week and as Sam was on his first visit today it is tradition that the ‘guest’ should dig, Jake would join him too in Can of Worms. Tav was on the ledge hauling away the spoil, Nick and Brockers (following a prompt) had a look at the remaining sediment in the area of the recent ‘slump’ and with those two also occupied, Mike decided to go to the bottom of the entrance, this left me on the surface. With two ‘digs’ going ahead this morning it was very likely to be busy. And, as expected, there was a steady flow of bags – one after another, no time to spare, the bags were not going to get emptied. I did manage to place a few rocks in the newly prepared area just because I needed to do something else rather than hauling filled bags up out of the entrance! As midday approached, 80 bags had been hauled out plus a few skip loads of rocks when Brockers emerged from the cave to help on the surface. This was just as well because there followed some hefty boulders that needed two pairs of hands, and more bags of course.
Eventually the rest of the team started to appear, and all hands were put to emptying bags – today’s count = c.95 bags filled, hauled, and emptied plus about 10 skip loads of rock added to the wall. Thankfully it had been a pleasant spring-like morning on the surface.
There were rumours of a small development above the ledge where Nick and Brockers had been poking around today. Anyway, now it was getting close to Hunters’ time and we left the cave for the farm.
