Ignorance is Bliss, from Showerbath Passage to Pierce's Passage

Ignorance is Bliss, from Showerbath Passage to Pierce's Passage

Ascending the boulder slope leads into a boulder chamber. A 2m climb up at the end enters a decorated area in the roof. Ahead leads over breakdown, to a small chamber with boulders and a side passage to the left. Ahead, walking and easy crawling leads along the rift to a small chamber. A squeeze to the right of a boulder leads into harder crawling along the bottom of a narrow rift. At the point where it is possible to stand up again, a roof tube to the left forms a low crawl along a bedding plane. This soon drops into a rift.

Following the rift to the left soon leads to a junction. To the left, after a few minutes, opens out into a sand-floored chamber, Cotton Chamber, with a balcony looking over a 5m drop, and the sound of the streamway below. The way on is down to the left, just before the balcony, below a small overhanging sand bank: a constricted route leads down to below the balcony.

A hole down to the left descends 3m in two sections, passing a rift. The passage opens out to the left, but the way on is ahead, between the right-hand wall and a large jammed boulder. A slippery traverse (care!) leads to a 2m climb down to the stream.

• Downstream, after a few minutes, the water disappears; a step up enters a roof oxbow. Very soon, the Wretched Rabbit passage is passed on the right. Ahead, the passage soon meets the main streamway at Eureka Junction.

• Upstream, soon a climb up through boulders reaches another junction, with the streamway entering from the left: following the dry passage, slightly right, leads towards Poetic Justice; following the water upstream, to the left, leads into Trident Series.