Flood cuts off cavers
PA Greymouth Two cavers were forced to spend Saturday night in the bush near Charleston after being cut off by rising flood waters. Owen Dennis of Westport and Joe Arts of Christchurch, members of a party of nine cavers from Buller and Canterbury, had earlier left their companions to look for new caves in the Wagon Creek area of the Four Mile, south of Charleston.
They were cut off when Wagon Creek rose, and the cavers spent the night camped out on a rock overhang near the bank of the creek. The pair walked out on Sunday morning just as a Buller Caving Group search party of about 20 was about to begin a preliminary search. The other seven cavers pulled out of the area early on Saturday afternoon
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