tiny little cave slugs in giant's hole

[alastairgott]

sounds brilliant are they land locked or do they get fed by the water and choose to stay in the cave

 

[gus horsley]

The Charlestown adit is in the side of the harbour and partially floods at high tide, so the eel was washed in and presumably made its way out again.  The St Agnes adit also gets partially flooded as it's in the back of a destroyed harbour and leads into the side of a big sea cave which forms an oxbow passage in the cliffs and is very impressive when waves surge through it.

 

[Peter Burgess]

I've explored those sea caves back in the 1970s, and had a very near miss. Where one of the caves emerges again to the open sea, there was an intermittent foul-smelling brown gushing cascade that almost caught us. I imagine there was (or maybe still is) an outfall of untreated sewage from the buildings on the hillside there.

 

[gus horsley]

I've explored those sea caves back in the 1970s, and had a very near miss. Where one of the caves emerges again to the open sea, there was an intermittent foul-smelling brown gushing cascade that almost caught us. I imagine there was (or maybe still is) an outfall of untreated sewage from the buildings on the hillside there.



It's still there.  There's actually a small working right out in the headland which gets the full force when the pipe is operating.  Shame really as it's got some nice staining (carbonates that is, not the other).

 

[alastairgott]

mmm sounds lovely

 

[george]

Hope this works - I've not posted a photo on here before!
I couldn't find this fella in my (basic) insect books. We found it deep down in Goydon. As this cave floods totally I guess he either got washed there or will have been washed out soon after.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45595192@N02/4196040236/#

 

[george]

Ok, that doesn't seem to have worked!
Back to the drawing board :-[

 

[george]

 

[kay]

Don't worry, you can see it if you click on the link. What size was it?

 

[george]

Thanks for the comfort! I'll get some practice in.
It was about 2cm long - quite substantial I thought!

 

[alastairgott]

hmm goyden, sounds very good but i will make sure i take a good description and check water levels at the reservoir to make sure a good days caving and creature spotting doesn't end badly.

 

[george]

Found a cave slug way down deep in Eglin (Nidderdale). About a centimetre long so bigger than the original posts'.

George

 

[george]

Hey, i think I've nailed this posting photos lark!