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Yep, a turtle, the first of the summer. It's exploring season, folks! |
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Back where we left off last time, we were determined to find out what lies beyond the deep end of the pool that stopped us last time. |
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Captain's-eye view. Phil got his light to sit at the prow perfectly. |
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Ah, we've arrived! But wait... |
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Maybe not. Just when we thought we were finished with the boat and could walk the rest of the way... no. We had to double back and bring the boat a little farther to help finish off this part. |
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Phil was in the front, so he hopped out and pulled me and the boat into the small tunnel at the end... |
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...while I took pictures of the concrete form all around. |
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And on the other side of it? More of the same! The wall just sits there between the two giant spaces like this on either side. |
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In the other direction it's just this wall of wooden form presumably with concrete behind it. Beyond that? No idea. Formerly Texas explorer Noah Vale did some research that indicated that I-30 ran across here and cut this waterway, thus making this section almost completely redundant (The "almost" being the smaller inlets on the walls throughout). |
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That's the back wall still in the distance on the right. I braved the silty bottom in here to make my way to this hole in the side wall where a fair amount of water was entering. Unfortunately, it was too small and too deep to do anything but swim it to see where the water was coming from, and I felt like I'd had enough closure on this system by that point. |
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How deep below ground were we? This was a shaft up to a manhole we passed along the way to the end. |
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