David Cooke, Euan Goodland, Lawrence Wilson, Yvette Mayo

Arrived in Burrington in sunshine and decided to have a quick look down Aveline’s, to our surprise the lock was missing allowing us to have a look at the distinctly unimpressive Mesolithic scratchings and the very muddy end of the cave, Cookie has informed UBSS that the lock is missing.

Walking up the valley we arrived at the entrance to Sidcot and rattled down the spidery entrance tube with Cookie looking unsuccessfully for the entrance to Purgatory.

After negotiating the Letterbox and Tie Press we slid down the Lobster Pot and soon came to the watery end of the cave, despite this being a duck it appeared to be full of silt so would need digging out to get to the true end of the cave.

The accent of the Lobster Pot provided the usual array of sound effects but eventually all managed it without the use of the rope.

Just before the Letterbox Cookie and Yvette examined a left turn that succeeded I leading to Purgatory, whilst they where doing that Euan and I exited the cave and did a very quick entrance to entrance trip of Goatchurch which Euan hadn’t been down before, turning the evening into a three cave jaunt.

We retired to the Woodborough where we were joined by Andy and Rachel

— Lawrence Wilson 28/04/2024