Posted in Adventures, Caves, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, cave digging, cave formation, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m so confused!!!
IMG_7452-1, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This was a bizzarre scene. The herbacious material growing along the edge of the water was trembling in the most unusual manner – like it was being agitated by something beneath the water and yet there was nothing there – the whole bed was vibrating and it was not [...]
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Searching for caves in Ontario
IMG_7433-1, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
As I say, the question is – are there caves beneath. Naturally, I would answer – “Of course there are” and set about digging right away, but I am involved on another dig right now (Stay tuned).
This here is a soil pipe – big enough up top [...]
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Geography as an exciting adventure sport (Or at least it feels that way to me)
IMG_7450-1, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Well, here I am with Greg in the background at one of the most impressive sinks that I have seen in Ontario. The stream to my left flows around the corner and entirely disappears into several gargantuan [...]
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The unfortunate tradgedy at Ongley’s Hole – Dewdney’s Cave
old pics 168, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I decided that it would not be delivering on my promise if I held off on Dewdneys so here is my story.
The triangular shaft that you can see in the last post is actually called “Ongley’s Hole” – named I suspect [...]
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Mystery person, mystery shaft, mystery cave – story yet to come.
Scan85, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I was over at my parents place today looking for some back-up pictures for a travel article that will be appearing in the South China Morning Post (Dec. 13) – keep you eyes peeled if you are over in that part [...]
Posted in Adventures, Caves, Caving in Cuba, Cuba, Cuban life, Education, Havana, Interesting, Life, Matanzas, Nature/Outdoors, Photography, Travel, bizzare, cave formation, caving, crazy things, cubans, culture, environment, geography, geology, hiking, history, holiday in Cuba, my life, nature, people, photos, picture of, searching for caves, sports, strange places, underground, vacation, varadero, wierd on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With beer and lots of disco music!
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This is the mouth of a large Cuban sea cave at a place called “Escaleras de Jaruco”. The environment and what constitutes preservation is not always what we call “preservation”. From my diary I offer the following extract…
“It was still high in the mountains and [...]
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Will explore this as soon as the water level drops
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There is a similar picture to this in my book “Rockwatching; Adventures above and Below Ontario” on page 190, it is entitled “mysterious stream” – well it kind of keeps you guessing.
This is actually “Pilgrims Crawl” a prospect that I am yet [...]
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Cave / shaft - in the roof of Ontario
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This is a picture of the structure above the big shaft. Cavers had constructed the shelter to assist in the digging when the hole was still directly beneath. In time the hole went in the direction of the hose you can see [...]
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A combined project between the Toronto Cave Group and Ontario Cave Divers
old pics 117, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Not bad for Ontario eh?
Beleive it or not this is a cave dig. The TCG and Ontario cave divers all worked on this project for a number of years. As you can see, it proogresed on through the [...]
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One of the better known Ontario Caves (amongst cavers)
old pics 107, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
As of late there seems to be a lot of interest in Dewdney’s cave. This was probably the first Ontario solution cave that I had visited. Entrance into Dewdney’s is by several collapsed slabs and also its signature triangular shaft.
The shaft [...]
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