Saturday 14th October 2023

John Cooper, Pete Hann, Adrian Vanderplank and Jude Vanderplank. The sound of falling water when leaning over the entrance did not bode well but even so a double mix of cement was taken in. As we descended the water had to be poured out of the buckets at regular intervals! Pete with the first bucket refused to go down into the bottom chamber owing to the stream entering from what had previously been just a drip. He used it a bit higher up whilst Adrian used the second bucket up near the top of Pensioners Pot and I used the third just up from the rift. The cement has probably all washed out by now! Need to find another dig site if it’s going to be this wet. 1 hour. John.