ACA Rendezvous Mexico - Matacanes Canyon - Page 2
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Mike Putiak rapping into the first cave.
Okay, I should have a picture of that first waterfall rappel, but I don't. Matacanes has a few rappels, but the coolest feature is the caves. Two of 'em. You swim through them. So here we are at the first one, which requires a 100 foot rappel into the mouth of the cave. Then the raddest jump in the canyon - a fifteen foot jump into six feet of water, in the DARK!
Lucky for us, on our Day 3 trip, we had Diving Dave along, who had done it the day before, is really into hucking off things, and could show us where all the good jumps were.
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Amy had dropped her camera the day before, and we were on a manly quest to retrieve it for the fair maiden. Thankfully, her description of WHERE was accurate, and the camera was not at the bottom of the 40 foot deep pool, but on the ascending slope maybe 20 feet down. Her luck was also in having Koen, the amphibious Belgian from Spain, to do the diving. First Try!
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No sense in recovering a camera, then NOT taking pictures.
"Just a few", said Koen. "Just to amuse her".
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The name is a geologic term for these amazing 'shower-heads' found in the caves. They are tubes growing downward, with water flowing out of the middle of them somewhat like shower heads. There were small ones, maybe a foot across, and large ones up to 3 feet across.
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Exit of the first cave, as seen from behind a large matacanes.
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After the cool cave, the next section of canyon had a bunch of jumps. These are in no particular order - just jumping photos from the three trips. ALL jumping photos by John Hart.
Ira taking the plunge...
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Someone else jumping into a pool. Photo: John Hart
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