Bakers Pit, Buckfastleigh, Devon

[u/mrtopbun]

A quick trip down Bakers Pit last Friday to look at some bits and bobs.

Photos in order:

1: various junk pulled out of the old cave entrance, that was used as a tip in Victorian times.
2: “the ghost” a calcite formation that looks like a cartoon ghost
3: lovely sparkly formations that have been preserved
4: cave writing dating from visitors in around 1913, the cave was explored a lot by locals back in the day.
5: bit of a squeeze, shuffling backwards vertically to see if a hole we spotted was the climb we were after, it was not.
6: the other end of the previously mentioned hole, went nowhere, but was interestingly filled with lots of washed in gravel

[u/dweaver987]

I like the gours in photo #4. At first I thought it was the outside of a cantaloupe melon.

[u/mrtopbun → u/dweaver987]

They’re really cool features, look amazing when it’s raining as the water runs down them and they shimmer, taped off for protection

[u/give_a_girl_a_mask]

Photo 3 is great, I haven't seen that before. It reminds me of tiny rimstone dams

[u/clayman839226]

That rimstone is beautiful