Jan 24 2022
VSA is happy to announce a comprehensive course with 40 hours for beginners and intermediate cavers. Theoretical and practices classes will be run from Monday 2sd to Sunday 15th of May. The course will cover technical and scientific aspects from Victorian caves, as well as general concepts to have a wider spectrum. …
Nov 03 2021
Rimstone Working Bee primarily for M3 fire preparation and possibly the M49 track and trough project. Numbers are limited by Covid rules at Homeleigh. Contact Daryl Carr for more information.
Oct 31 2021
Trip to the end of Shades of Death (past show cave). Objective is two take 2 photos of the large chambers, and assistance will be needed to place lighting and also be subjects in the photos. People who have not been to the cave before, and who have an interest in cave photography are encouraged …
Oct 31 2021
Sunday 7th of November from 12:30 to 17:30 Need a bit of SRTpractice to knowk the COVID rust off? Come along to run up and down a few lines.I’m limiting the number to 10 participates so we can all get a bit of practice. Ask for Wayne.
Oct 26 2021
Greetings to the VSA Cavers!!! We are excited to announce our new Trip Form that you should use to collect relevant information during your trip. Therefore, you will contribute to build a better caving database that we all can benefit from. Please, find the link in the publication tab and just below the PDF format. …
Oct 26 2021
The next explore-and-survey trip to new caves near Portland will begin on Saturday 30 October (travel out evening Friday 29th, immediately after Vic regional travel re-opens). Trip duration will be up to 4 days – shorter attendance is OK, of course. Progress, until Covid interrupted the project in July, had been substantial, with …
Oct 20 2021
The presentation of November will be run by our legendary Nicholas White. He will tell us all about his work and fight for the cave conservation in Victoria. Don’t miss this meeting!, 10th of November 2021
May 11 2021
The website is looking old and neglected so we need some trip reports and photographs. Let me know where you have been and what you have done. Here is a pic from the Nullarbor. N111
Jun 19 2019
Cavers from four states gathered for the annual expedition to explore and survey a block of desert on the Nullarbor plain. Nicholas White organised property access and permits, Ken Boland flew the ultralight aircraft for aerial surveys and the rest of us did the ground searches and mapping. Photo’s from top are Sunrise, Sunset, …
Oct 31 2018
VSA returned to the Nullarbor with palaeontologists from Adelaide Uni to find bones of extinct marsupials. Some remains of small carnivores have been found. They were looking for Mulgara, Quoll, Atechinus and other small creatures. We camped among the trees to shelter from the wind but it did not work. Some camels crossed …