Early on in my caving career I discovered a
love of water. So when I asked for a special birthday trip, I learned my lesson
from last year when I asked for a ‘memorable’ day and found myself on the
beginning of terrifying Midnight Traverses in OFD, and instead requested a trip
to Little Neath River Cave.
When we reached the small entrance next to
the flowing river I enthusiastically jumped in the hole first. However what
they neglected to mention to me, was the stream in the entrance passage was
riddled with leeches, which is a very unpleasant discovery when you are flat
out crawling and your nose is a few inches from the water! Once through the
sprawling entrance stream we popped up into Mud Chamber for a few photos before
entering The Canal which had a few interesting ducks. We then
continued to follow the streamway to sump 2 before retracing our steps. To
escape the water for a while we headed down into the 3D Maze which involved a
back bending drop down between some boulders which was significantly easier on
the way down than it was coming back up! Being the best decorated section of
the cave with a crystal river and many other formations, we stopped for a few
more pictures in the old world series before realising our call out time was
fast approaching. We made a swift exit via the canal by-pass and we sent
Brendan up the entrance stream first this time as leech bait!
Little Neath was an excellent cave which I
would love to finish off at some point in the future However I admit that
scraping about 100 leeches off myself put a slight dampener on my excitement!
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| Chloe admiring formations in the Old World Series |
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| Chloe in Crystal River Passage |
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| A Stunning Shot By Mr M of Chloe in The Lower Main Stream Way |
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| Jess and Chloe in Mud Hall
Trip Report Chloe Burney
Present: Chloe Burney, Jess Harding, Mark Burkey and Brendan Marris
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