13/06/2025
A lot of updates, a lot of work to wrap this up, giving way to a lot of new plans and confirmed leads.
In summary, we smashed 7 months of exploration between Jack and myself in season # 1 of the Vanilla Farm Exploration Project. Guest explorer was Kim Davidsson, thanks for all the mentorship and help.
32K feet of surveyed cave passages, 50+ jump arrows, hundreds of exploration hours on our loyal KISS Sidewinders.
5 entrances, bones, pottery, average depth of 7m, max depth 16m, dozens of massive collapses, cave and jungle fauna, and more.
We started our water sampling project, and we are on to more on season # 2 coming up.
Very grateful for our porters from the Chilango team, rocking it and making this possible.
Thanks to all who supported this season, we are very excited and working very hard to understand more and protect this pristine cave.
If you wish to support our project please get in touch and request our executive summary and project briefing.
And thanks to my exploration partner Jack Cleary for every dive good or bad, for all the team work, for the amazing attitude, for keeping the cool and for all the trust that goes into venturing that far from an entrance with another human being. “I trust you with my life” is not something we can say very often and to just anyone around. THANK YOU 🤜🤛
