Expedition Logo
Here it is – the logo for our expedition! Continue reading → Here it is – the logo for our expedition! Continue reading → 46 days
46 days to go until we leave for South Africa. The first week we, from overseas, will do a pre-expedition tour. As we have come to an end in planning and organising this first week, we cannot take on any new members as of now. It is of course still free to join the actual […] Continue reading → Expedition goals
Not much time left, many loose ends to tie up still! One is what we want to accomplish during our stay. The main goal will be to survey as much as possible in a safe way. This will include digital storage of all survey data, and if possible digital recording of both polygon data and […] Continue reading → Booked
A short update on the planning of our 2013/2014 expedition. Our participation list so far: 5 people from Sweden (three Swedes, one Austrian and one Czech) 4 people from Austria (three Austrians, one German) 3 people from South Africa And of course Darron and Sipho and others from Swazi Trails in Swaziland! We created a […] Continue reading → Swaziland 2013/2014 expedition-plan so far
In 2012 we spent three weeks in Swaziland to conduct a first survey of Gobholo cave and explore the potential for further expeditions. We flew to Johannesburg and took a shuttle to Mbabane were Darron Raw collected us. We got help from Darron and his Swazi Trails crew to and from the cave during our […] Continue reading → Expedition Logo?
Maybe not the most important preparation for the expedition, or maybe it is, but we need a logo. First thought was a bat in a boulder cave, but hey, how many bats haven’t we seen in caver’s logo? (Although not soooo many in boulder caves.) Other common things are olms, Texas cave salamanders, or carbide […] Continue reading → Back to Africa
We have now decided the date for the second Swazi-Swedish Expedition to Gobholo Cave: We arrive in Johannesburg on December 27, spend some days for faunistic and cultural surveys in Southern Africa (or in other words, sightseeing), and arrive to Swaziland some of the first days in January. We plan to spend about a week […] Continue reading → Last day in the cave
Wednesday and came and went. Fast. This must have been the most fun day here actually. And I am not saying this because it was our last day to the cave and I am about to go home and de-dust. For once Darron had (nearly) a whole day to come with us and we did […] Continue reading → Time to leave
It’s about time to wrap up this expedition and leave Swaziland for this time. We had our last day in the cave yesterday, when we also spend some time on the surface together with Darron. We started by visiting the place where the river flows out after nearly 2kms underground. It’s a quite large river, […] Continue reading → Weekend summary
So, a few days catch-up to do … after I frooze so much on Thursday and the night was not much warmer, I of course woke up with temperature on Friday and a headache, cough and soar throat. We got bikes at the office in the morning and went to the National Museum a few […] Continue reading →