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IMG_6100, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is jeff; his glasses all fogged up from the steam. This is what there was behind the waterfall. It is an old industrial undertaking whereby the water up top was at one time diverted though a sluice down through a tunnel into turbines. This particular spot was one of the [...]
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Under the waterfall at night
IMG_6094, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is quite interesting - it shows the junction of the Whirlpool Sandstone and the Queenstone shale layer. My good friend SNAFU and I had visited this place on a cold winter night. As we approached falls the noise was totally deafening and the spray and wind [...]
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Do you know what this is - any idea at all?
IMG_6086, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Not so flattering a picture of yours truly but it is indicative of when a long cold winter gets to be too much. I end up going out in desperation and doing strange things. I would be quite impressed if anyone [...]
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old pics 151, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I happened to be cruising the internet a few weeks ago and noticed in a guest book for my old Regiment - The Queen’s Regiment - the name of an old friend of mine - Andy Creech. We re-established contact after 21 years. Andy is on the left and [...]
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Suspected buried passages beneath where we were crawling.
IMG_6884, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
We suspected that the tunnels within which we were crawling - though broken into several smaller caves - might actually be an interconnected warren of passages simply blocked by thousands of years of porcupine feces.
In many places the tunnels appear to have a lower [...]
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Does anyone know what kind of vertebrae this is?
IMG_6953, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Shortly after descending the bone pit Greg found two beaver skulls in a corner and as I was walking I kicked something that made an oddly porcelean sound - very unlike the sound of the rock shards beneath my feet.
In examining the cave [...]
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His blue eye and white claw lead me to that conclusion.
IMG_6301, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
There we go - “Bad Old Chester”. Chester - the new “Rockhound”.
Sadly Shaka passed away in October. He had a tumor on his spleen - virtually unsaveable as the ensuing operation revealed. You may remember him from the post “Cave Police” (July 2006) and [...]
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Locals call him “old yellow mane”.
IMG_1821, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Though Doug Shier tells me that all roads in the area lead back to Cobalt, I am warned by an older gent in the Silver Load Hotel’s restaurant to be careful out there if I am exploring the ore piles. It was a little cryptic; you might [...]
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Aimsley, in his own wandering way, clarified the matter.
27, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
From amid the leafy screen I wandered into a field of heaped lumber, greying with age and collapsed in piles. I looked for a head structure that might indicate the location of the old shafts I could not see one. Somewhere within the [...]
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Is the rock oozing blood?
IMG_6799, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Jeff examines the roof within and brings to my attention the oddly stained speleothems. We wondered as to whether the rock was this color due to natural iron pigments in the rock or was it some kind of pollutant leaching from the surface? I recall hearing of [...]
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