I decided to take Richie up on his offer of a cave in middleton. I arrived today and was excited at what i saw. After looking around and talking to the owner Denis, I decided to put on drusuiy go in for a quick look without the heavy gear. I left Richie and Denis at the entrance looking on with interest at what was in there. I slid into the cave and it was a about 4 feet high 3 feet wide. There was surface water running in but it was only about a foot deep. I pushed my way in along the floor which was made up of twigs leaves all kinda debris and mud. I moved along slowly as there was lots sharp edges and I did not want tear the drysuit this early on. The cave was mainly going in straight line for about 50 meters towards the main road where the guys had said. I got to a blockage, and could not go any further as there was a car wheel, milk crate and tons boards and branches blocking the way on. I pulled out a milk crate and decided to take it out. I slowly pushed it to the exit and then switched torches to have my hands free to dig.
I returned to the blockage and began diggging, eventually it cleared and I moved the wheel and could crawl over the pill of branches and into a wider section. The water had dissapeared under the left hand wall by the blockage. I moved around and found 2 soccer balls and lots of boards. There was a dry mud cave very small to the right so i put all the drbris in there to give me more room. I could hear the water and see it but the cave had narrowed up so much i could not even get my hand through. The wider section at the end had alot of small stones so maybe some digging in the future may increase the size and I may be able to push futher on, but it looks very low and not sure a person could fit but we will see. I plan to return with a small shovel to see if this is the case soon.
