[Beginner] Bugonia Caving Trip – Cave B4-5

Huzzah everyone!

This Saturday, Zee and I will be heading down south to Bungonia for some caving. We will be visiting B4-5 (Aka Fossil Cave and Hogan’s Cave)/

This is a beginner friendly trip that will be packed with scrambling, squeezing, crawling and marvelling! Be prepared to confront your fear of small places, darkness, heights, dust and hot showers! There will be no ropework on this trip, and is suitable for energetic and enthusiastic explorers of all skill levels. Whether you are new to caving all together or would like to learn more about this gnarly sport, sign ups can be found below.

We will be meeting up at the Bungonia Campground on Saturday Morning (approx 2 hours drive south). Bungonia is one of the best campgrounds around, with hot showers, a kitchen and proper toilets – feel free to come down and camp overnight! I’ve heard that there are some lovely hikes in the area as well (just keep an eye out for holes in the ground!)

As seen above, the caves can get dirty! keep this in mind when deciding on your gear for the day!

What YOU need to bring:

• Enclosed shoes
• Long sleeved clothes/long pants that you are comfortable getting dirty! (there may be club overalls available to be borrowed)
• Helmet (available to be borrowed from the club)
• Headtorch
• Spare batteries for headtorch
• Secondary torch
• food/snacks for the day
• at least 1L water
• sunscreen/sunglasses/a big floppy hat to keep the cave sun off ya
• small bag to carry everything
• personal medications

As there are hot showers available at the campground, I would also suggest bringing a towel, change of clothes to fully experience the available amenities!

Please include in the comment: your experience (outdoors background and whether you have any caving experience),  whether you have a car and how many people you can take OR where you need a lift from, and name your favourite kind of phobia (just so we know you have read all of this information).

If you have any questions please feel free to message Zee (Zenon) or myself

Thanks,

Cindy