Which (Mendip) cave have you visited this week?

[bagpuss]

Eastwater last night, not sure what it is about Eastwater but it's the only cave I've not had an enjoyable trip in. Last night's was enjoyable though. A lovely walk in with the setting sun and singing skylarks. Entrance boulder choke was dry. Made it over the upper traverse without a meltdown. Did a short round trip then whilst the rest of the group did a longer route had a nice cup of tea and chat at the top of the canyon. Perhaps that is the answer to a good trip in Eastwater, 50% lounging around!

 

[mikem]

Definitely a marmite cave

 

[bagpuss]

Too nice a day to be underground so went looking for Baby Face cave on the Clevedon Coast. I think we found the right location based on the MCRA grid ref, but we failed to find the carving. Has anyone else managed to locate it?

We did find two 'just about caves' which didn't appear to be on the MCRA.
Just along from Baby Face cave, a few body lengths long.

Further along in the middle of Margaret's Bay, we nicknamed it Strewth Ruth.

 

[tony from suffolk]

Eastwater last night, not sure what it is about Eastwater but it's the only cave I've not had an enjoyable trip in. Last night's was enjoyable though. A lovely walk in with the setting sun and singing skylarks. Entrance boulder choke was dry. Made it over the upper traverse without a meltdown. Did a short round trip then whilst the rest of the group did a longer route had a nice cup of tea and chat at the top of the canyon. Perhaps that is the answer to a good trip in Eastwater, 50% lounging around!

I loved Eastwater. Probably perverse of me, but I always enjoyed its rather doomy atmosphere.

 

[bagpuss]

First visit to Honeymead Hole yesterday, the air was nice and fresh in the cave. We took a bit too much tackle which made it harder work than it needed to be at times! Really enjoyed the cave, very typically Mendip. Some nice down climbs, decent 10m pitch, a few formations dotted around, lots of interesting fossils and some very muddy passage!

 

[Sid]

Good to hear the air was good as last time i visited we had to abandon the trip.

 

[bagpuss]

Good to hear the air was good as last time i visited we had to abandon the trip.

I've had that twice with Little Crapnell, last time we tried there we barely made any progress and aborted for a Swildons trip instead. What time of year was your visit?

 

[bagpuss]

Waterwheel Swallet, water levels pretty low at the moment, you can see the traverse line high above the water, could stand up at the end of the pool. Stopped en route to the Hunters to move a massive tree trunk out of the road on the bend just after Stockhill woods to find the road blocked with flytipped rubble and trees. Moved as much as we safely could and called the police when we had signal at the Hunters. When we spoke to the police on our way home later they seemed to think they'd found paperwork with the fly tipping.

 

[bagpuss]

Bone Hole, thanks very much to @mikem MCG for showing us around. A lovely variety of formations, quite a few iffy looking rocks!

 

[mrodoc]

The other side of Bone Hole is interesting for other reasons!

 

[bagpuss]

The other side of Bone Hole is interesting for other reasons!

We also visited that part (Perforation choke?) but didn't feel like getting my camera out!

 

[bagpuss]

Visited a bunch of micro Burrington caves/shelters today, East Twin Top Sink, East Twin Middle Sink, (walked past East Twin Swallet), Whitcombe's Hole, Tunnel cave, Tunnel bedding plane, West Twin Brook Spring, West Twin Brook adit, Pseudo Nash's Hole, Johnny Nash's Hole, Quiddler's Arch, (walked past Flange Swallet, Goatchurch and Pierre's Pot)
Didn't find Yew Tree Swallet, we were on the grid refernce, if we were in the right place it's possibly filled with leaves. Picked up plenty of ticks for our troubles.

Whitcombe's Hole

 

[mikem]

Yew tree swallet is just a sink in the stream bed, no cave evident

 

[bagpuss]

Sludge pit hole to practice a bit of SRT (paid our money but couldn't get the bucket to open to sign the log, anyone had issues with this?)

Visited Longwood afterwards for a quick recce of the entrance climb for a club trip on Wednesday, the climb was just a bit drippy and only a small puddle in the squeeze.