Day Out - Tyneham, Pondfield Bay and Worbarrow Bay

Tyneham, Pondfield Cove and Sea Cave and Worbarrow Bay

Beautiful sunny day so Tim and I went for a walk around Tyneham village, down to Pondfield bay and Worbarrow bay.  There was a sea cave in Pondfield Bay which required exploring!

Ruined cottages at Tyneham

Tyneham church

Pondfield bay and sea cave

Pondfield sea cave entrance

Me getting ready to go in!

Inside Pondfield sea cave

Worbarrow Bay

Day Out - Lulworth Cove, Stair Hole, Durdle Door and St Oswald's Bay

Lulworth Cove, Stair Hole, Durdle Door and St Oswald's Bay

Great weather today on the Dorset coast.  Hadn't been to Lulworth for many years so we thought it was a perfect day for a visit.  We walked round the west side of the bay and found a sea cave!  We went in to have a look how far back it went.  Tim was ahead of me and I don't think his eyes had adjusted to the dark because he walked straight into shin deep water!!!  We walked back via Stair Hole and got and ice cream to have on the walk over to Durdle Door.  After much photo taking we came back along St Oswald's Bay.  A lovely walk despite getting a little sunburnt and Tim having wet feet the whole time!!

Sea cave at Lulworth Cove

View of St Oswald's Bay from hill top path

Durdle Door

View back across St Oswald's Bay

Caving - Goatchurch Cavern & Pierre's Pot

Caving - Goatchurch Cavern & Pierre's Pot

Took Elliott for his first caving trip.  Into Goatchurch Cavern first - In through the old show cave entrance, down bloody tight to make our way to the drainpipe!  back up through the mid terrace and exit the tradesman's entrance.  Elliott seemed to have enjoyed the experience so we went into Pierre's Pot too.  A successful first trip as Elliott didn't say he would never go again!!!

Route through Goatchurch Cavern

Group photo in Goatchurch Cavern

Route through Pierre's Pot

Elliott negotiating the entrance to Pierre's Pot

Caving - Balch's Coral Grotto and Balch's Aven Series

Caving - Balch's Aven Chamber and Balch's Coral Grotto

Tim wanted to try out some underground photography techniques.  We went to Fairy Quarry in Stoke St Michael to revisit a cave we were unable to go far into on a previous visit due to a large quantity of snoozing bats!!

We went into Balch's Aven Chamber first - The entrance is through an oil drum high up the quarry face.  The short entrance crawl leads to a sloping pitch.  Descending this leads to well decorated passages to the Aven Chamber.

Next we had a look at Balch's Coral Grotto - After a narrow entrance section a 3m pitch leads to the remaining chambers.

The Cave entrances high above the quarry floor

Balch's Aven Chamber Formation

Balch's Aven Chamber Lighting Effects

Balch's Coral Grotto Formations

Balch's Coral Grotto Formations

Ringing - Quarter Peal

Quarter Peal
Swanage

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Clapper Chaos Handbell Group - Salisbury Guildhall Concert

Clapper Chaos Handbell Group

Salisbury Guildhall Concert

Clapper Chaos were asked to perform in a concert to raise money for the Gurkha Welfare Trust - the evening raised nearly £2,500.

The Gurkha Dancers

These videos are of the pieces we played.  They were taken during our rehearsal earlier on the day.

Electric Dreams

Apologize

Kingsfold

Londonderry Air

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Caving - Wessex Cave Club South Wales Weekend - Day 1

Wessex Cave Club

South Wales Weekend

Day 1 - 05.05.12 - Ogof Ffynnon Ddu (OFD) - The cave of the black spring.  Group of eight led by Noel - in the cave at 12:00 out at 17:30 - Through trip from the bottom to the OFDII entrance.

OFD is Britain's third longest cave as well as being the deepest at 308 m deep. The trip from the Top Entrance to the Ogof Ffynnon Ddu 1 entrance is the deepest cave through trip in the British Isles at 228 m.  The cave is decorated throughout with many different styles of calcite decorations of which the most well known are The 2m high Columns, with The Trident being the longest stalactite in the UK at 5 metres.

The trip was fast paced and I haven't got a clue what route we took - not even by looking at the survey!!  There were a few sections that stick in my mind...The main streamway was hard going with fast flowing water around your feet/legs and deep enough in places that I had to swim!, The letterbox - a slot about 40 cm high and 1.5 m long, situated halfway up a cliff!! and the Trident and Judge

Route we took

The Streamway 

The Letterbox!

The Trident

The Judge

Caving - Wessex Cave Club South Wales Weekend - Day 2

Wessex Cave Club

South Wales Weekend

Day 2 - 06.05.12 - Ogof Ffynnon Ddu (OFD) - The cave of the black spring.  Group of eight led by Noel - in the cave at 09:30 out at 14:30 - Trip to the columns.

The Columns are protected by locked gates that are only opened about 4 times a year.  Luckily we were away for one of those days.  They are accessed by the OFDII entrance.

Route to the Columns

The Columns

The Columns