Monday 3rd February 2025

Mike Kushy, solo. Took in drill and made rocks smaller, these got tossed into the dam. Lost some mud in a crack to one side and tipped several buckets into the dam. Went to the sharp end and the air was very frosty. Worked on some temporary walls some more, which were backfilled with mud from the bottom of the puddle. Some decent rocks retrieved from the pool and sent further back, all the buckets are filled and further back too. Once again some stirring with the crowbar ahead. There's a very large block in the floor under the puddle which moves. 2 hours. Mike.
Didn't take any photos, so here's a Lidar image with the cave entrance marked in green.

Sunday 2nd February 2025

Mike Kushy, solo. Headed in just before 5pm, quite a cold evening. My glasses steamed up as soon as in the concrete pipe. Got to the dam and found it empty, the far side of the dam a lot of mud has washed away around the sandbag (as expected) letting out a small leak. Will have to cement this up in drier weather. The hose could also do with replacing as it's quite old and has a few kinks. The hose was where I'd left it though and you could see foam where the hole I put the hose in had overfilled. There was foam higher on the walls than the crawl through to the end, so the place would have been fully sumped at some stage. There was hardly any water to be seen at the dig face, the shattered ceiling ahead had obviously had water go over the top of it, thus bringing all the ceiling to the floor (at least we know now it is not holding the standing up block to the left. Chucked what rocks I could back and lost several buckets of mud directly into the alcove above the dig face. Then I quickly built walls around and tipped all of the mud behind them. The puddle now beginning to show its ugly face again. Ahead a thick calcite vein (8") was broken out and this let the water move on further ahead. It was at this point the air noticeably changed in draught and temperature. A lot of stuff to clear as ever and there's a large block ahead to the left that will come out. I'm feeling more optimistic now, it looks like we could be above some mud filled rift. 2 1/2 hours. Mike.

Start of session. Photo MK.

End of session. Photo MK.