Stay Behind Cave - 07 Jul 2005

Thursday July 7th 2005

Members present: Adrian Turner,  Dominic Galliano,  Gary Douthwaite,  Holly Read,  Laura Bennett,  Nicola Gover,  Stephen Cooper

Just in case anyone was wondering what stay behind cave is i shall now elaborate.
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<br>Stay behind is a world war 2 tunnel system that was hidden behind a second set of tunnels to hide it from the germans so that should Gibraltar be taken by the germans we would still be able to spy on them.
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<br>The "cave" starts at a random point in one of gibraltars 100+ miles of passageways (very impressive when you consider it probably has less than 80 of roadway) and quickly opens out into a cork floored main room with still working water tank and filtration systemat the back of this room there is a short passageway leading to the toilets (propper ones) and a bycicle powered battery charger for their radio (with leather belt to prevent them being heard.
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<br>At the end of this passageway is a crack leading onto the rockface which leads onto a wide ledge on the east side of the rock. If you look for the picture you can see me clinging to the wall because that 200+m drop looked scary. thats just about it:-)