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Jan 6, 2005 WINDSOR GREAT CAVE Position: Main Entrance: WGS84 - 18 21' 04.9" N, 77 38' 50.9" W Field notes: D. K. ROGGY Cavers: D. K. Roggy, R. S. Stewart, I. C. Conolley, M. Bellinger, M. Loftin, D. McFarlane, K. Christenson, J. Lundberg Time in: 11:00 EST, Time out: 16:00 EST THREAT VULNERABILITY: High Windsor Great Cave Mike Loftin and I made our way with video equipment from Montego Bay up to Windsor. We met up with Ivor and Mark B and headed up to Windsor Great Cave (WGC). We got some nice video and stills of the cave entrance, set up the camera inside the cave, got video of JCO members entering and leaving the cave and then joined Stef and the scientific expedition team, already deeper within the cave. This cave was a difficult one to video. The conditions had enough difficult walking, with mud and so forth that made for worries about a fall spoiling our video camera. We got some decent video of the scientific team discussing bat guano, etc but other video was very difficult to shoot in the large chambers of WGC. All light from our headlamps died out within 20 feet, as far as our video camera was concerned and thus it was hard to capture the spacious grandeur of the cave. Still shots taken with flash were doubtless better, and shots taken by a member of the scientific expedition, with 2 slave flashes seemed to turn out very nice indeed. Lesson learned: Big caves require big light!
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