Location: Puerto Pollensa (3 04'36"E 39 54'53"N)

This cave overlooks Puerto Pollensa and is ideal as a "first trip". Leave Pto.Pollensa on the Pollensa/Palma road. Turn right at the Garua Car-Rental shop and follow the road into a narrow, low-walled lane and continue to a cross roads. Turn right and follow the lane to the end, where you'll have to park near some villas. Walk up the hill for about 300' in a straight line from the lane. The entrance can be difficult to find, but have a good look round.

Description:

From the entrance, a short crawl is followed to the left to a short steep slope (hand line required). From the chamber at the bottom, another crawl goes to the left and enters a large, well-decorated chamber with a dry sandy floor. A slot in the floor is crossed, at the right hand end of which is a series of well-decorated pitches (140', 60', 40'). These are rigged with a traverse line from a large block to the head of the top pitch where an 8mm bolt and stal-grill form a good take-off. Several deviations are required to the head of the 2nd pitch. Here, a Y-hang from two 8mm bolts reaches the head of the 3rd pitch (undescended).

Continuing along the main chamber, two pots (c. 20' deep, both blind) are by-passed via a climb up flowstone to the right (handline recommended). Just before the pots, a climb down to the right (handline required) can be followed to the left to a junction. Turning left drops down into a small but superb crystal chamber.

Beyond the two blind pots, the original passage continues high and wide past many large columns and stals and a magnificent stal chandelier. At the far end, pass through a stal grill into another well decorated chamber, through a short crawl and into the final chamber.

A recent report suggests that, in the entrance passage, there is a route to another large pitch.