QUERIM CAVE 2

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Adjacent south-east of Querim Cave 1 another south-west facing cave entrance (up tp 6 m wide and 3 m high) leads to a rift passage arriving, more or less parallel to the first Querim Cave, from impenetrable fissures in th north-east. The sand-floored passage, again slightly ascending from the sea-side towards the back of the cave, resembles initially in cross-section the outlines of a Burmese Buddhist stupa (with a high -spire- along the cave-controlling tactonical rift and the -belly- enlarged by abrading wave-action) but the passage height drops at about halfway in (some 10 m from the cave entrance) to a hands and knees crawl, which deteriorates in size to a belly crawl (almost a dark zone) that eventually runs into impenetrable fissures. Perched at a height of 5 to 8 m vertically above the cave entrance is a daylight-lit niche (about 3 m wide, high and deep), which is suspected to have been fromed by gravitational decay. CAVE CONTENTS: On 23rd January 2007 the lower part of the cav contained at least five empty PET (polyethylen) bottles (obviously washed-in by the surf), as they have been used for a decade (or so) by visiting foreign tourists and upper class local people for germ-free drinking water. The high level niche contained an assemblage of single shoes (mostly in a state beyond repair) in numbers alluring to a sedimentary footwear deposit. Secondary calcite deposits were absent.