22/9/20

Having lost Mike and Jon to the recent Wookey breakthrough and continuing work in there on that, plus Stu came over and capped some rocks yesterday as he couldn’t make tonight, we were reduced to 3. The water levels at the end are 6-8 inches in most places, but lots of clay in the floor which would prevent drainage. Plenty of remains of boulders from Stu’s efforts last night so Estelle set to filling buckets with rocks as it is easier to handle and they were all taken only as far as the hole in the floor, which we’ve been discussing filling for a while – we also used up most of the small rocks we’d been using in the space by where the grill was. Once we’d run out of rocks, James took over and was digging the area where the grill was down to rock level. This was bagged and Dave placed them so the skip should flow over the top. The boards were taken out, the grills are both stashed at the side of the passage for now in case they are needed again. More work to continue getting down to floor level and could do with breaking up the boulders we stashed as they are no longer neatly walled and would be better removed from the cave! Headed out to Waldegrave.