Camera perspective is deceptive - my fellow caver here is still at least 20-30m from the bottom. The 60m rope we used only had about 5-6m left! Was an epic pitch, and we can't wait to get back in to survey the cave, and hopefully find more passage.
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That's why I do this! That feeling of 'no one has ever been before' is indescribable.
When is your next foray down the hole?
Hopefully next weekend - have a colleague coming with scuba gear to check out the sumps. It has a fairly major streamway that sumps out both up and downstream, so will be fascinating if he can get through to more dry cave. While he's in there I'll check out a couple of the dry leads
Funnily enough, I just watched a short documentary on a cave diving disaster in the states. Those guys are a special breed.