Category archives: Holidays and Expeditions

The Observatory Cave – A Trip Down ‘Europe’s Warmest Cave’

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Date: 06/07/18 Members Present: Myself (David Botcherby), my family, a very familiar tour guide, some other punters As my results were coming out that day, we preemptively decided to celebrate by spending the day exploring the princes' paradise that is Monaco (it being around 40 mins from where we were...

Irish Student Caving Forum 2017 – Part 1: SUSSpicious activity at the border…

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I’d been talking of attending the Irish Student Caving Forum for a while, and with an impromptu ferry purchase after the worlds kindest kick up the arse from Tony me, Molly, Liam, Michael and Botch actually found ourselves assembling at mine and Liam’s on the Tuesday morning; full of beans...

The sinking feeling you only get when SUSS take to the water. 

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The sinking feeling you only get when SUSS take to the water. 
I've decided that I might actually quite like caving. On the Wednesday of our recent sailing holiday around Majorca we reached a sea cave that Helen had found through an old Dudley trip report that sounded amazing called Cova des Coloms. Due to numbers of wetsuits, lights and the logistics we...