Monday 10 August 2009

Abseiling over the bat cave



We rigged the van with a rope to scramble down to the start of the abseils and then started down over the huge caves. There was a 50m free hanging abseil to get to the bottom and I gulped hard as I set out over the lip of the overhang. Lovely, relatively easy, climbing on good quality rock above the lake. As we got nearer the top I could see lots of tourists peering over the side wondering what we were up to. We topped out to dozens of tourists taking our pictures and clapping... we gladly obliged and revelled in our new found fame. We followed that with a proper wash and swim in the lake and then joined the tourist path ourselves to go in search of giant mugs for the van and kitchen tiles for Adam in Moustiers. No luck with tiles but we did find some ‘life enriching’ mugs for the van.

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