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May 10, 2003 FITZIE FISSURES 1, 2, 3: Field notes: I. C. CONOLLEY Cavers: R. S. Stewart, I. C. Conolley, M. Taylor (Continued from Barrow's Cave) So they all take us over to the other caves which we later dub Fitzie One, Two and Three respectively. Fitzie One is a bomber. It looked from the top like a simple twenty foot rope climb. We get in there and poke around trying to find what they tell us is a passage that goes into Fitzie Two. We come off rope at about thirty feet. We don’t find the reputed passage but after bottoming out at about 80 feet we see fissures, and passages too small for anyone to walk through. At this depth we see and feel water splashing us as the water trickles fairly heavily from the rocks above. It is interesting. Perhaps at sometime there was an opening. Perhaps it was blocked by a rock. Fitzie Two is small. I am already geared up from Fitzie One. Fitzie Two is less than thirty metres away Fitzie One. Stef is already in. Not very deep but obviously blocked. Coming back out. I don’t go in. Cecil had missed the location of this hole and then realised that a huge section of the hillside, massive piece of rock, had broken off and blocked the original hole. By poking around he found an entrance and remarked, "the entrance change". His brother who came on the scene later was also amazed. It was this section that they said as kids they would watch things that they threw in at Fitzie One come out of. So they figured there had to be a passage. |
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