Wezzit?
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skippy
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As its Friday, time to resurrect this, re-cap the clues and provide a further one...Someone must get this if only from the clues alone:-
Its in the Peak, not in Peak but not far from Peak.
The Entrance has a very 'Mendipian' feel about it.
In 2008, the first through trip was undertaken from Resurgence to the 'dry' entrance.
Over to you.
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Pitlamp
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Nice one - not yet been in that part of Bagshawe but your final clue made it obvious.
OK folks, this next picture is in a location that loads of you will have been within metres of but perhaps not that many have actually been along this nicely formed little phreatic tube. Let's see how this one goes
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OK folks, this next picture is in a location that loads of you will have been within metres of but perhaps not that many have actually been along this nicely formed little phreatic tube. Let's see how this one goes
Lankyman
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That looks like lichen growing around the foreground which would suggest it's an entrance? Is it the little cave in Easegill Kirk that bypasses that awkward dry waterfall?
Pitlamp
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Good call - but no.
However, you're in the right caving area (Dales) which narrows down the options.
It isn't lichen, which requires light energy (as that's a symbiotic association between an alga and a fungus). More likely a gold coloured bacterium.
(Biology lesson over - honest!)
However, you're in the right caving area (Dales) which narrows down the options.
It isn't lichen, which requires light energy (as that's a symbiotic association between an alga and a fungus). More likely a gold coloured bacterium.
(Biology lesson over - honest!)
Brains
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Off topic but ..
I have often seen that phenomenon, and wondered about it's origin. Vaguely felt it was to do with people bringing in bacteria or whatever. Not having explored virgin passage it would be interesting to know if it is seen in unpolluted places... Does anyone know of its detailed cause?
alanw
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There's mention of gold (and purple) bacteria in this thread, with a link to a BCRA Symposium paper.
Pitlamp
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Not quite - but that's good enough. Right cave, just wrong location. It's in a short side passage off the show cave where there's a 19th Century inscription. So you've passed within 5 metres of this spot!
To be fair it does actually look a bit like the start of the rising tube from the end of Far Eastern Bedding Plane up into Upper Inauguration (a handy part of the system to be aware of as it bypasses the Wallows, which can sump very quickly with even a small amount of rain or even melting snow).
Anyway well done; take it away Brains.
To be fair it does actually look a bit like the start of the rising tube from the end of Far Eastern Bedding Plane up into Upper Inauguration (a handy part of the system to be aware of as it bypasses the Wallows, which can sump very quickly with even a small amount of rain or even melting snow).
Anyway well done; take it away Brains.
Lankyman
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It has a kind of quarried look and there appears to be some p-hangers on the left. Is it a mine somewhere?
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