Buller Section Trip To Wriggly Snake Cave

Westport Venturer Scouts and members of the Canterbury University Caving Club made a trip to the Wriggly Snake Cave, near Charleston, recently. This tomo, or vertical hole in limestone, is about 160 feet deep. (Pictures: Bruce Macdonald).

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A caver emerges from the deep limestone hole

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White the underground explorers were doing their thing, the ground crew was kept busy, operating life lines and telephone cables

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Retrieving the 170ft, or more, of rope ladder