Light breakfast reqired

A Turner and Holden family fun day out;-
All 8 persons to wear warm natural fibre leggings and long sleeved top - preferably loud colours, too big or too small, holey and generally belonging to someone else about 30 years ago.
Wet suit, shortie - same as above.
Head torch
old trainers or walking sandals with socks (nice )
take snack and first aid kit.
get a good fitting helmet
Then, get a dry day when everyone is available and willing.
Walk up a steep hill looking like you've been living rough for a few months and hope that you don't meet the mountain cycle club out on its family fun day ride (yola nearly died with embarrassment)!!!!!
Take husband and best friend who ;
1. know the caves ....it was a maze of tunnels and holes
2.know how to cave, do the ropey thing and be safe and be bossy (with excitable big and little people)
3. Makes it sound like an adventure not to be missed, that will push ones boundries but is not impossible or that unpleasant.
then trust.......
as we were lowered or abseiled through a small gap in the land....into a huge cave and proceeded in the pitch black to, crawl, scramble, climb up and down, through and along, walk through streams wade through rivers and underground ponds, climb down through waterfalls and HAVE to jump off 6 foot high ledges into pitch black deep water...heads under - the whole lot. OMG what an adventure and a challenge. We were all frozen, slightly scuffed (knees, elbows etc) but buzzing. It was an experience not to miss. We had no sense of time at all whist down there. We were astonished to find that what seemed like 2 hours turned out to be nearly 4! Time flies when you're squeezed in a hole!!
Thank you Rich for taking us, taking this photo and for failing to tell me about the jumping over the water fall bit into the abyss!