sleepingbeauty & whitechrysant: Bekah Cave, Against the Adrenaline

I love caving. Sometime you will found extraordinary thing there, so many maybe.. It feel like you go to the other world. So weird but make you amazed.

Bout 1 year ago I went to Bekah Cave with my friends. This cave located in Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta. It took 2 hours trip by motorcycle or car from Yogyakarta city. It was an unique cave. It located beside the sea, under the 60-70 meters high of cliff. Of course you must wear the SRT (single rope technique) equipment to descending and ascending to passed the high cliff. Sometime when high wave come, this cave will closed by sea water. So we must go there when the sea have its receding time and we will reach till the cave lane.

There, you can also found whales and green turtle. You can see them by using binoculars.

we found that whale...wow

we can saw the turtle too..how lucky we were

I went there twice. First, on 15-17rd April 2011. We just want to tried the track there, observed how was the wave and how was the inside. In this survey, we (me, Tanti, Fadhlih and Fahmy) could enter the cave and reach cave lane because of the waves had being friendly with us. The waves wasn't too high. Only 20 meters we walked through the cave, then we should continued our trip by soar with our life jacket. It was water everywhere till we reached the end of the cave. But, the water tasted like freshwater not salty. Out of the ordinary.

But, the twice we went there, we found some trouble so we couldn't reach the cave lane. I was the rigging woman at that time. The person who went down first and make the rope track. I really nervous. I hate the height, but I must passed this so I wouldn't afraid anymore. Evidently there was the most scary thing, not the height, it was sea wave!!! I must went down which I couldn't reach the floor of the cliff. There just water everywhere. Damn! I couldn't reach the big stone near my rope, the stone that used to hitched the rope. So I decided to stand on the smaller stone under the big one. Then, this is the scary moment. I should jump to the big stone across the wave. It took a long time to me to make sure that I can go there. When the wave wasn't too high I jump in hurry. Finally...Yayyyy. I'm happy but still afraid. I cried till the second man went down. He was Bobi, my senior. He tried to make me calm down.

still try to attach the rope hitch into the anchorage

confuse.. there's no floor.. it just wave everywhere *the worst moment

The third was Heri, my friend. He could reach the floor without any trouble. The 4th was Ika, my senior. She had a trouble, her crawl (one of the ascending equipment) slipped out of the rope so she couldn't reach her jumar (the other ascending equpiment). It called jumar come here. She should tried to reach her jumar many times. She gave up then she throw away the drybag which camera inside so we could catch it. Unfortunately we couldn't do it. The drybag fell freely hit the rocks. Oh My God.. the camera...How lucky we were, nothing happen with the camera..huffftttt

Heri still hang on the rope

In the afternoon the waves higher higher and higher. I and Bobi tried to across the rocks to reach the cave entrance but we couldn't. When Ika finally could reach her jumar the situation wasn't longer good anymore. So she must went up even she didn't reach the floor already.

The situation went more scary. The waves was so high. We must hurried to go up. Bobi told me that I must go up after Ika. I really scared. I tried to ascend as quick as I could, because I knew how was horrible down there. When I almost reached the gorund, the matras which lay base for the rope didn't lie necessarily because of the wind blow so hard. I blew the whistle, the code for the other to correct the matras. Unfortunately, Heri thought that code was for him, the code that permit him to ascend. Finally, I stuck there because my safety equipment attached to the rope which used to ascend by Heri. I tried to yelling him don't ascend right now but he couldn't understand because of wave noise. I cried again. My friend, Fadhlih tried to make me calm down and sent the code for Heri not to climb up. Finally Heri catch the code and I could climb up to the ground.