Long time caver. Long time motorcycle rider Long time tech with PMG, Telecom & Telstra.
Greg Leeder
Melbourne, Australia
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May 11 2021
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
Jun 19 2019
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, …
Oct 31 2018
Palaeology 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 …
Sep 03 2017
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.
May 31 2017
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 …
Nov 10 2015
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
Feb 14 2015
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 …
Mar 18 2014
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 …
Sep 11 2013
Naracoorte Sep. 2013
On 7th Sept VSA met up with cavers from SA at Naracoorte for a weekend of caving and a sit down dinner on Saturday night. The park ranger took a party into Victoria fossil cave to see the bone dig and display of the marsupial lion. (Thylacoleo carnifex) This is a sandcone, a …
Jan 17 2013
Trogalong Conference
More than 70 cavers attended the 29th conference of the Australian Speleological Federation at Galong, NSW from 6th to 11th January. VSA was represented by 9 members: Susan & Nicholas White, Daryl Carr, Margaret James, Mara Silins, Tom Porritt, Rhys Maddern Wellington, Peter Freeman & Greg Leeder. Papers were presented by Susan White on Flank …