hello! i just came back from a trip of my first caving experience. it was great! I took some nice pictures for me to show you guys. its a wee bit big but i already made it smaller.. I went to jenolan caves, australia!

here are the pics

http://members.lycos.co.uk/harkoliar/Jenolan/15.jpg
one of the entrances to the big cave

http://members.lycos.co.uk/harkoliar/Jenolan/3.jpg
here i was in a cave called Aladin

http://members.lycos.co.uk/harkoliar/Jenolan/8.jpg
a more close up view of the rock formations

http://members.lycos.co.uk/harkoliar/Jenolan/11.jpg

a bit tight in there..

so do any of you IW go caving or canyoning? ;)

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LoL Harkoliar! Met any Kobolds in there? Hehe! [img]graemlins/evillaughter1.gif[/img]

Personally I don't go caving. They're might be some noteworthy caves here in holland, but non as fancy as those I presume. A friend of mine did go hiking through scotland once and he did went into some impressive caves! One cave had entire walls that were cut by water so they looked like square-lego-blocks stack upon one and another... Was really weird and cool-looking!

I'm planning on cave-tripping (nice pun eh? :D ) at some point in my life, but nowadays, I'm just so busy with college and all..... Looks great though!
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thanks alot zuvio.. and your right.. it was kinda scary meeting "something" down there.. like the one in bg2 in the underdark where the duegar dug too deep, which im sure you bg2 fans know what im talking about..

or in everquest 1 in the kobold cave near quentos :D .. if i see anything that moved there besides a human, i would be running on water... :D

Very Cool pics. The only caves I have been into are some in B.C. There is some caves on the Kooteny lakes but not near as nice as the ones you were in. :D

cool, nice pics, the closest I have come to caving, is walking through one called blanchard springs, but there was no climbing involved, you rode an elevator down, but it was still pretty in there

lol thanks all, i had to go through like hell just to come out alive. (seriously) i had to go through a hole smaller than me, crawled like a worm for how many meters, climbed thru dust and falling rocks, wrecked my cloths, brusied my entre body... but after all of that it was great! [img]smile.gif[/img]

my next caving trip will be two months from now. letting my body rest and gotta study first [img]tongue.gif[/img] . i do hope some other people here goes caving as well

Nice pics Harkoliar!

I've been to the Jenolan caves once before, but that was a long time ago, so I can't really remember much. I do however, remember that it was very beautiful.

[ 10-13-2003, 03:33 AM: Message edited by: GokuZool ]

yes you should visit again. its a beautiful cave.. uh.. caves ;) . there are several here.. ive only been to 3-4 of them so far. there are several caves here including the mammoth cave which they say is around 7-8 kilometers.. whoa.. you can stay there for a week and not yet be done there [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I've been to jenolan caves a few times too! though not in the *tight* areas LOL. It sounds like you had a great time.Try out the wombyan caves too. about 100km s/w of there. There is some good bushwalking and canoeing there too.

P.s Harkoliar, have you heard from Charlie recantly?

no no word at all, hope he is alright in melbourn... you should ask leonis though.. he was the one who was with him in sydney

I haven t exactly been on a caving experience as such, but when i went to Austria I had a tour round the biggest ice cave in the world and it was amazing. it was also quite funny because the guy onfront of us set his jeans alight with a parifin lamp [img]graemlins/doh.gif[/img]

I once went on a caving trip about 6 or 7 years ago, nd it was quite fun.

Harks.I can understand why people go mountain climbing, or row single handed across the Atlantic, I can see the fun in wrestling alligators or bungee jumping.

But I can honestly say I have absolutely no idea why anyone in their right minds would ever, in any circumstance, climb into a hole in the ground for fun!

:D

One of my teachers was a part time member of the Cave Rescue Service. She told how they were called to help a woman who had tried to gou round a tight corner facing forwrd. Apparently you must go round backwards so that your knees can bend around the corner. She was wedgeds by her knees and they had to break her legs to get her out.

She died on the way back to the surface. Nice! :(

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That's a singled-out, horrific event against many where people have enjoyed the caving and didn't have had any problems.

Just like bungee-jumping: it's great fun, but one has to realise that there is a chance that it might go wrong and that you might die. It's the risk you take extreme fun. And caving is a grand experience on its own, if youlike that sort of things.
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No - I've always shuddered at the idea of pot holing!

[ 10-13-2003, 10:57 AM: Message edited by: Donut ]

thanks for the warning donut.. i will be extra careful in the future. there are always risks involve and caving gives a higher risk than normal. i will be careful in the future, and i was saying to myself when I got stuck (for a short while) in a pesky hole, I kept wondering myself, why the hell am I doing this? reason? I want to enjoy my life to the fullest the way I know how. [img]smile.gif[/img] .. or course I will not be doing that anytime soon. Rapelling will be my next target. :D . and scuba diving