Although this gallery
is a late addition to the site, this was actually one of the first tunnels
Dani and I explored together, a little over a year before we revisited
it... this time with a camera.
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As usual, we started out downstream. We stole Dani's mom's jeep for the day so I could move some stuff. |
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Yes, this one was a bit of a backbreaker. |
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Hey, look! Someone else tried rafting through here! Or maybe not. |
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In front of me was a huge blockage formed
by a couple pieces of wood roughly the size of railroad ties.
They're obscured by all the debris they captured since they ended up jammed behind the pipe. However, once I got on the other side I was able to pull them free and set them up to flow out during the next heavy rain. At least until they hit another pipe. |
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The tiniest crawfish I have ever seen! There were a few others this size as well as a few full-grown guys. |
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On the other side of University from where
we started is a spot where it opens out just at the edge of the parking
lot.
I never noticed this until we actually went through this tunnel the first time, even though I've been through that parking lot dozens of times before. |
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Just a shot of Dani peeking out from another tunnel in this section. |
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Uh, oh... cave-in!
There was just this one bad patch where the thin layer of concrete collapsed. Fortunately, there is a huge sheet of metal above the concrete. |
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And this is how it turns out....
The water originates upstream via a canal on the other side of the parking lot. |
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