Meetlist For The Rest Of The Year

Hi everyone,

The planned trips for the rest of the year are as follows:

14 September - Hidden Cave - Pete Kenyon
12 October - Stinkhole - Rick Hunter
25 October - SEC AGM - Pete Kenyon & Dave Ingold
09 November - West Driefontein (hopefully) - Pete Kenyon
14 December - TBA

The DistoX2

By Steven Tucker 23 July 2014

As a follow up to the previous article, it is time to announce a new way of surveying in South Africa with some new and very impressive toys, the DistoX2 and a Nexus 7 tablet with TopoDroid installed on it. We decided to test this combination fully over the last few weeks and see what it is capable of. For this enter a cave named Villa Louisa III. According to its description, it’s a fairly large cave and heavily mined. So at the entrance of the cave we switch on the tablet and create a new file named Villa3. The tablet has GPS, so we immediately get the exact coordinates of the cave entrance and make that spot our first survey station.

Surveying

By Steven Tucker 20 July 2014

If there is something that I am grateful for, it’s the hard work done in the past by cavers in surveying, especially caves like Apocalypse, Wonderfontein, Crystal, Chaos, West Driefontein, Cango, Arnhem, Thabazimbi, Sterkfontein and Bats, ten of the longest caves in Southern Africa. Between the aforementioned there is conservatively sixty five kilometers of surveyed passages. The amount of work put into those is phenomenal.

New Website Release

By André Doussy 16 July 2014

After several months of discussing possible domain names for the SEC website, we are proud to release our long awaited new website. Not only does this new website provide a lot more detailed information about our club, it also has a new fresh look.

Apocalypse Cave

by Rick Hunter 5 May 2014

Just like many others after our regular caving trips, I always look forward to the braai. There you see muddy and exhausted cavers enjoying a good drink savouring a delicious meal and often reminiscing of trips gone by. After spending a lot of time in these moments you often hear

The Wonder of Wonderfontein

By Veronica Van Der Schyff 23 April 2014

A note to all aspiring cavers who have not yet ventured with SEC: Anything said on Facebook is an understatement! After my visit to Yom Tov cave, I thought I will be more or less familiar with water caves. At least this time they were honest about swimming.

Climbers Cave

By Steven Tucker - 18 February 2014

Thanks to Gerrie and Andre re-establishing contact with the owners of Climber's Cave both SEC and PPH were able to visit the cave early in February. This was probably the first time that the cave had been visited in almost 10 years!