Holiday - Yorkshire/Shropshire - Day Six

Yorkshire/Shropshire Holiday

Day Six

This morning it was again dry so we thought we had better do some more caving!!  We decided to walk out to the two caves we investigated on Tuesday.  The bog got Tim at one point as he suddenly ended up to his thighs in it!!  We first went into Thistle cave – We weren’t alone in there we could hear voices from the entrance.  As we got in we saw a group of kids having a play a round.  We went up stream and tried out some of the photography techniques we were told about at the caving conference.  We exited the top entrance and had a look into the top section before walking further along the hill top for Scar Top Cave which was the top section of Runscar Cave.  The entrance was in the stream under a pile of boulders – the way on was through a low crawl that carried on for far too long!!  We determined it wasn’t really going anywhere so we turned round and came back out and went in the downstream entrance through Runscar 3 and 2.  We also went into Runscar 1 as far as the sump and then back out.  A lovely trip into two nice small caves.

We went to Inglesport for some lunch and to get a survey for Alum Pot from Bernie’s Cafe next door.  Back at the caving club we cleaned up and packed the car and headed to Warrington for a Toby Carvery.

After dinner we went to the ringing practice at Lymm.

That evening we travelled down to a travel lodge in Crewe ready to join everyone on our ringing holiday the next day.