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Montage (Silly Section)
Cova de les Rodes |
An unusual cave - about the only one we found containing any water! Leave Cala de St. Vicente and follow the road to a cross roads. Turn right and follow the lane to a car park behind some trees. Walk past the car park over a garden wall by a gate (!) and walk straight forward. Looking down to the right a wall can be seen flush with the path and some steps lead down to some trees. Just around the corner is the entrance, behind a large boulder.
Care should be taken in this cave as carbon dioxide exists in large pockets. A box of matches are a good idea to use as a test.
At the far end of the entrance chamber, an awkward climb down to a calcite slope leads via several more climbs into a fairly easy passage. Beyond a chamber, a pool leads via a sump to the rest of the cave. A by-pass - up a mud slope - goes via a 12' pitch. At the bottom of the pitch is another pool which can be passed dry with care. From the far side of the pool, several mud slopes are followed into a rift which ends at a 20' pitch. At the chamber at the bottom is a deep-blue pool and a short section of passage and some nice formations and flowstone.