Alan Cressler

Ortega cave is another cave formed in the cretaceous limestone.  It consist of a large entrance filled with swooping swallows.  Then there was about 500' of passage 50' x 50' and larger.  Midway through the cave is a large room with considerable bat activity.  Guano rained down as I traversed through.  Not much farther a couple large rocks were in the middle of the passage.  Soon after, the large passage filtered into a crawl which neither Alan or I explored.  I felt rather tired.  I think nearly two weeks of nonstop caving was beginning to wear on me a bit.  I took a few pictures looking out the entrance and after Alan was finished checking the cave for boas and I finished trying to figure out why my sync cord wasn't working properly we hiked back to the car and retreated to Tom's after a little Chinese. 

Ortega

Yeah, some of the passage in Puerto Rico is pretty huge. 

Ortega  

Yeah, some of the passage in Puerto Rico is pretty huge. 

Ortega

The entrance. 

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Ortega

Cave swallows.