The bat cave part 2

After a lovely evening at the beach we set off again. Securing a rope to the van to use as a handrail while we descended a steep, loose path to the abseil point. One abseil later we were faced with a huge abseil over the top of a cave, dangling without feet the whole way. This was too much for Sari finally and so we cut our losses to climb out of the last pitch and head for the beach once more.
There was a line of bolts above us so off I went. The climbing seemed super hard but perhaps it was just the stress and frustration of not starting the route from the bottom. After standing on bolts, clipping in, pulling on quick draws I managed to place a few quckdraws above me. It was then time to stand down and let Sari climb, maybe it just wasn’t my day.

Immediately I realised there was a problem as Sari also had problems on the top rope but she pushed onwards aid climbing with the use of a friend between bolts until easier ground and the top.

It was then we finally decided to gt the guidebook out and see what we had been climbing – and sure enough we had been attempting the 7b alternate finish! So our egos weren’t too battered by the end of the day.