A new cave for Portland
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tim.rose2
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The whole entrance area is certainly mobile and more importantly the wandering welly of wellington hole was found quite a way from where I last saw it. We should start a game of 'where's welly?'.
There was quite a lot of seaweed in there as well - that should give the cave a fine aroma in the months ahead.
There was quite a lot of seaweed in there as well - that should give the cave a fine aroma in the months ahead.
tim.rose2
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Myself and Richard popped down to Wellington entrance on Sunday to see how things are. Once again the tree had been mobile and had more or less blocked the way on. Less of an issue to deal with than the previous time though.
As far as we could tell new rocks were not getting washed in and it's simply those already in there being moved around by the sea. We spent a couple of hours of evicting loads of rocks and dumping in places outside where they shouldn't get back in. Having moved enough rocks to give a clear path we finished by rolling out the lump of tree that has been annoying and deposited it in the back of it's very own rock shelter 50 yards further down the cliff. Hopefully it'll be happy there and not return! We've left the last couple of large boulders which require clambering over before accessing the rest of the cave partly because we couldn't be arsed to deal with them and secondly as they seemed to create a good seaweed barrier.
We believe we've done enough to ensure there will be an open route through the entrance area for a few years at least and it's much friendlier on the knees than it used to be. I guess time will tell. If we're bored sometime we might well go and chuck out another batch.
The lump of tree and some of the boulders outside the entrance on route to their new homes...
Richard joyous at the now spacious entrance passage...
As far as we could tell new rocks were not getting washed in and it's simply those already in there being moved around by the sea. We spent a couple of hours of evicting loads of rocks and dumping in places outside where they shouldn't get back in. Having moved enough rocks to give a clear path we finished by rolling out the lump of tree that has been annoying and deposited it in the back of it's very own rock shelter 50 yards further down the cliff. Hopefully it'll be happy there and not return! We've left the last couple of large boulders which require clambering over before accessing the rest of the cave partly because we couldn't be arsed to deal with them and secondly as they seemed to create a good seaweed barrier.
We believe we've done enough to ensure there will be an open route through the entrance area for a few years at least and it's much friendlier on the knees than it used to be. I guess time will tell. If we're bored sometime we might well go and chuck out another batch.
The lump of tree and some of the boulders outside the entrance on route to their new homes...
Richard joyous at the now spacious entrance passage...
