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A newly discovered Ontario cave

Initial exploration of “Bed of Glass Cave”
This is Jeff, he discovered Bed of Glass Cave” last weekend.
Having dropped down through the hole that had been broken through the coils of rusting wire we found ourself in a twilight world of subdued light, old car parts and broken bottles. Up above the [...]

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A cave like Nexus, but way south of there

Caving in Ontario
We realized that we were inadequately prepared to explore this new cave, we had only one flashlight and crawling on the cobbles without knee pads was painful to say the least. We resolved to poke our heads in a short distance and see what lay ahead [...]

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We speculate as to the distance that the cave goes in

No sucking air 
Immediate impressions at the entrance -  the tunnel sloped down into water, a wide trench had been worn into the floor and though the water was not flowing at the time, it certainly flowed some times as the debris out front suggests a significant [...]

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Lake of the Dahlias somewhere beyond

P1010079, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Here it is – over the hump. I pressed through this low slot and on to the passage beyond – an elliptical tunnel that wound off into gloom. Its hard to imagine but somewhere further on the helictites become so dense and interwoven that it is [...]

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Cuevas de Bellamar

P1010076, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Shortly after leaving the tourist section of the Cuevas de Bellamar there was this reddish hump in front – it was a rippled flowstone ramp, over which I wriggled and there in front was …..

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Nothing like Cuba – but more to come on that!

 
Just a little something from Ontario – The water is cold and the tunnels black. I had the experience a few years ago of dredging out a sumping tube somewhere near Hamilton – where the temperature on the surface was many degrees below zero and I [...]

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Ontario caver goes Cuban

 
Sloshing through tepid water in the Cuevas de Bellamar I proceeded onwards past the usual path of travel. I am told that these gently sloping tunnels eventually reach the aquifer. Cuba is part of the same limestone plateau upon which is perched Florida and the Yucatan. Oddly this rock in which the [...]

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Staying at the Jibacoa – Caving in Matanzas

P1010096, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I think it might be that one evil green eye that led me on beyond the tourist designated tunnels of the Cuevas de Bellamar. I had been given permission to go further by our guide who was an avid caver himself. I still intend [...]

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Caves at Escalares De Jaruco – Cuba

P1000527, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Here we are – cruising in the smoking Lada with M… and family. We are at a place called “Escaleras de Juruco” here to see the caves!
As my diary records, ” M… drove us further into the park, thrashing the Lada through the grass and [...]

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There is lots more to see

IMG_4684, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I had been carefully picking my way through the dust and breakdown in the upper level of an obscure cave in Ontario’s marble. The marble forms in bands of especially pure white rock in this area; it is very hard and sharp – thus gloves, elbow [...]

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