Greg Leeder

Melbourne, Australia

Long time caver. Long time motorcycle rider Long time tech with PMG, Telecom & Telstra.

Author's posts

Black VSA t shirts- $20 Coloured VSA T-shirts $25 VSA Hoodies- $45.00 VSA stickers- $5.00 each or $10.00 for 3

Nargun No.52

Thanks to our editor Nadine. All the latest news and photo’s from places near and far. You can see what other members have been doing and what is planned. Bo suggested at the meeting that the web site could be used to advertise trips and allow members to enlist on trips. This system was used …

Continue reading

Website Update

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

Nullarbor expedition May 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, …

Continue reading

Palaeontology Expedition 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 …

Continue reading

Wombeyan caves, NSW. August 2017

On our way to the UIS conference in Penrith, Mara and I called in to Wombeyan. Andy Spate was conducting a pre-conference tour for overseas visitors and offered to take us with them.

Photographic Survey of Buchan Caves

Daryl Carr recently led a team into the caves at Buchan to make a photo record of some of the caves. The VSA & FOBCR have combined on a project to Image the Great Chambers of Buchan caves,  To date we have dealt with imaging the chambers in 3 of the major Buchan caves. Another …

Continue reading

Federal Cave Centenary

Over 80 visitors were conducted through the cave on 7th November as part of a celebration of the resurrection of the old tourist cave. Friends of Buchan Caves & VSA members showed the works and improvements in the cave including solar powered LED lighting.     Friends of Buchan Caves & VSA members

Limestone strata

This photo was taken by Gary Smith from NHVSS in December. We are facing east looking over Slocombe’s cave from the farmhouse on the hill. On previous visits to this place the ground was covered by pasture grass and other weeds so that the bedding plane of the limestone was obscured. Cattle had grazed most …

Continue reading

Mole creek, Tas

I have just returned from Tasmania where I visited King Solomon’s cave.A conducted tour but a good cave all the same. The Column was dead straight and about 12 cm thick. Note the handrail at the bottom of picture for scale. It would be about4 or 5 metres tall. Also a nice straw about 2 …

Continue reading

Load more