3DD-4: Cave photographs

Selected photographs of the cave passages

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Entrance Section

A simple linear stream passage with wall notches from old stream levels (or are these soluble beds?). Mud speleothems occur in several places.

3DD-4: Entrance section.
Stream passage.
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3DD-4: Entrance section.
Stream passage. Soft mud bank.
Erica looking for shark's teeth !

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3DD-4: Entrance section.
Stream passage.
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3DD-4: Entrance section.
Stream passage.
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First Rockfall, upper level

At the first rockfall, one can climb up to an upper level of abandoned stream passage.

3DD-4: Upper level, above 1st. rockfall.
Basalt cobbles at end of passage.
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3DD-4: Upper level above 1st rockfall.
Note roof notch (paragenetic?) and old mud banks.

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Between 1st and 2nd Rockfalls

Below the upper level the stream passage continues with lower roof for a while, but then the roof rises again. There are well-developed speleothems on the east wall, but not on the west side. Some speleothems are mud-coated (link).

3DD-4: Meanders and mud-banks in low-roofed section.

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3DD-4: Low roofed section of stream passage.
Note roof pendant.

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3DD-4: Speleothems are common on the east (right) wall, but rare on the west wall.
Seepage is mainly from beneath the plateau - to the east.

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Main stream passage beyond the 2nd Rockfall

This is straight stream passage in a vadose notch ("The Bowling Alley") alternating with rockfall sections.

The roof is visible from the top of the rockpiles, and generally has a flat top with small incuts on the sides. It is mud coated, but the mud is thinner than below and dry and cracking off. Thicker, laminated mud deposits are seen in wall notches.

3DD-4: Main stream pasage ("Bowling Alley"?)
Flat roof + notches + laminated mud fill.

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3DD-4: Main stream pasage ("Bowling Alley"?)
Flat roof with mud filling joints (?)
(Panorama)

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3DD-4: Main stream pasage ("Bowling Alley"?)
Flat roof with old mud coating. White walls exposed by fresh breakdown.

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3DD-4: Main stream pasage ("Bowling Alley"?)
negotiating one of the rockpiles.
(Lynne L. & Sue W.)
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3DD-4: Main stream pasage ("Bowling Alley"?)
Mud-coated walls (and caver)

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3DD-4: Main stream pasage ("Bowling Alley"?)
Flat roof + tessellated mud coating

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3DD-4: Main stream pasage ("Bowling Alley"?)
Flat roof + tessellated mud coating

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3DD-4: Main stream pasage ("Bowling Alley"?)
Flat roof + tessellated mud coating
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Below the Falls

Eventually one reaches a junction. A minor stream enters from a small decorated passage that continues straight ahead. The main passage does a U-turn back to the NW. It continues as a large muddy stream passage to a big pool and then starts to climb as a set of chutes and basins to the base of the 4m high waterfall.

3DD-4: Beyond the U-bend.
Bell-holes in ceiling.

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3DD-4: Below the falls.
Big pool.

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3DD-4: Below the falls.
Chutes and basins.

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Above the Falls

I have only been a short distance. The passage is lower roofed, and meanders strongly. A few small side passages have yet to be explored. Exploration and surveying are continuing.

3DD-4: Above the falls.
Meandering low-roofed passage.

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3DD-4: Above the falls.
Meandering low-roofed passage

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3DD-4: Above the falls.
Meandering low-roofed passage

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