Unfortunately Byron was feeling too ill to come down.
Me and Rob first went upstream, up several climbs into a nice straw chamber at the top, up a steep rope climb. We avoided using the rope for the lower bit as it was easier to climb the calcite.
We then returned and went downstream to the sump which was crystal clear, almost inviting.
Upstream downstream went and visited the sump with the pipes, the sythhon would need to be restarted before going through the easy sideways tube that is scary for some.
We then went up the big rift where Rob said it was very stope like. Beyond a difficult climb up gains the top of the rift, as the stream gets too tight, Rob has not learned the jamming himself in a rift technique so stuggled a bit, and did not like the top of the climb which was open over quite a large drop (neither did I).
We then continued traversing and basically energetic caving, to near the end, we turned back just before a small calcited side passage.
We exited the cave and explored a few other caves nearby, one being a really horrible dig, before getting changed at the car. Afterwards we sat enjoying the sun, in the almost dry riverbed, where I heard roaring water, so I dug some cobbles out took my t-shirt off so it did not get muddy and pushed my way in, finding a small waterfall and 30m of undocumented/undiscovered cave. This is likely created by the river sinking underground about 50m upstream, but the side passage which continues under the road away from the river was interesting, though currently it don't go and not just because my skoda would have been parked directly above it lol.
