Day 150 Tuesday 30/03/10

Having had a long day of travelling the day before, we went to Antelias Quarry again on the outskirts of Beirut to visit a new cave. This cave was discovered by the ALES club in 2007 and was named after the date of exploration (22nd April).

The cave entrance was up a steep climb on a cliff wall. The cave is only short but has some amazing formations in pure white calcite. We spent four hours in the cave photographing with varying degrees of success. The cave is also home to many fruit bats which were very vocal. When we got out Dave popped into Kannan Cave in the same quarry to look at the formations there.

In the evening we drove to Issam's house for a basic geology lesson on the Limestone of Lebanon, which was very informative.