GULLY SINK 2 (aa -)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A cave entrance without identified shape, characteristics (preferably unmistakable) or dimensions, which appears to represent a seasonal sink and a pothole, was understood to be the other of two seasonal stream sinks (Brooks 2009.06.06 Mss: Gully Sink 1 and 2) which occupy one and the same space. ETYMOLOGY: No locally known cave name has been identified for what Henry Rockcliff identified on 19th February 2009 as a sink in a gully without identified name. Within a few months, Simon J. Brooks nicknamed on 6th June 2009 Henry Rockcliff's second nameless sink as Gully Sink 2 (Brooks 2009.06.06 Mss: Gully Sink 1 and 2). SITUATION: Not only in an inexplicable location falling on the Tangnub quadrangle (N25°18': E092°30' to N25°19': E092°31') and at a spot without identified spatial relation to the other known cave entrances in it's vicinity but also in exactly the same location as the first –>Gully Sink 1 (Brooks 2009.06.06 Mss: Gully Sink 1 and 2). APPROACH (modified after Broks 2009.06.06 Mss: Gully Sink 1 and 2): From Tangnub village, follow a 4WD track descending west to paddy fields. Leave the track at a turn (N25°17'50.1”: E092°30'56.5”) to follow an allegedly nameless and obvious gully (unidentified) down onto the limestone. Some 20 or 30 m after reaching the limestone, there are two sinks, the first of which (1) is the deepest & more open. Both sinks have loose rock in vicinity of entrance. CAVE DESCRIPTION 1: One of … nine new caves, all of them with vertical entrances under the big broken boulders. Most of them are drafting [sic! more likely: draughting] and oulook [sic!] of all the caves are good (Brooks, S J et al. 2009 Mss -Diary 2009.doc- Thursday 19th February). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2: Open rift (accessible from both ends) with an estimated depth of 15 m (Brooks 2009.06.06 Mss: Gully Sink 1 and 2).