Posted in Adventures, Interesting, Photography, Travel on June 11, 2006 | 1 Comment »
old pics 139, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
As mentioned in a previous post, I had done battle with an angry camel in Morocco. He won and I ended up bribing the camel herd to stop beating him. This picture of my flailing body was taken by a companion in a dusty roadside field just north of [...]
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IMG_4289, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is it, my squishable limit. From my perspective this is as far as I can make it without some excavation. On the bright side, about two hours with a gravel hoe will clear a groove through this gravel bar. Along there I can crawl to a wider passage on the other [...]
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IMG_4285
Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Here things are starting to get a little tight. I have managed to engineer a self portrait by setting my camera up with one hand and lying with my face in the gravel. I am starting to feel that things are getting a little restrictive but as I said, its just a [...]
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IMG_4296
Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
What might be a quite “do-able” wriggle to a caver is undoubtably a horrible claustrophobic nightmare to a surface person. I mean if you have never been in a really tight squeeze you wont know what your limits are. The key to the whole [...]
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IMG_4271, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Jeff and I wriggled up the tube, it was as he informed his first such exploration. Having found the cave as quickly as he had both Doug and I were very impressed by his efforts.
The tube was rounded to elliptical in shape and where the transition was made between bedding plane [...]
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IMG_4273, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Several of these crevices intersect the tunnel as it leaves the famers field. This is the last such feature before the waterflow (of which there was very little this day) disappears entirely into a mound of debris. As for its reappearance, we were unable to be entirely sure as to where [...]
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