The Armchair Caver

Avoid the unpleasantness of actual caving with my armchair guides - clickable maps with photographs of the cave. (The maps are just hand drawn and don't show all passages, so don't try using them for route finding underground)

For non cavers - to simulate the caving experience, go into the garden and get changed into some old clothes. Then take your PC into the cupboard under the stairs and view these guides with the lights out. Periodically sprinkle cold water over yourself. After it's all over, smear some mud on your face and go to the pub.

The lift shaft, Aquamole Pot
  • Gaping Gill, a trip made in 1988, entering via Bar Pot, to the main chamber and Old East Passage. (Thanks to the "models", Tom Hargraves and Chris Mcintosh, who spent many hours posing for these photographs.)
  • Wales 1997, trips to the Antlers in Daren Cilau and Gilwern Passage in Ogof Draenen.
  • Lost John's on a wet day, with a hangover
  • Sunset, a re-introduction to caving for lapsed cavers.
  • Car Pot, as it says in the book: "the original tight deep hole"
  • Buca Faggeto Tondo, a trip to Monte Cucco, Italy with the Modena Caving Club
  • Cavers Horoscope. See the future with our psychic medium, Doris Bulwarks
  • New Rift  Some photos taken by me soon after the pot was discovered in 1985, plus some recent photos taken by Iain Holland on a trip in 2004
  • Ogof Ffynnon Ddu A virtual tour produced by Peter Collings-Wells of South Wales Caving Club
What I did on my holidays
Chamonix
 Games section - the Goat in the Machine
The goat in the machine
  • OXO. Pit your wits against the computer, or choose squares at random, with my 3-Dimensional Noughts and Crosses game.
  • Can I have a P please, Bob? Recreate happy memories of the cult television programme "Blockbusters" with my Hex game, although you will have to make up your own questions.
  • I model bananas. Use my Anagrams program to find anagrams from people's names like "I nudist chinaman", "America blast pall", "Be sow hugger", "Damns USA hides!", "Italy born", "A blond asian, me", "W, he bugs Gore", "Ugh, sewer gob", "I model bananas", "I rat nobly", "Muddler of Lands". (You will have to work out for yourself who these are.)

Happy caving

Arthur Vause, arthur.vause@[remove spam cloak]ukonline.co.uk

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