Do NOT enter
drains. Read this warning!
Do NOT enter
drains. Read this warning!
The
Abyss! Rating:
15th
April 2001
This is a drain you really never want to explore!
Drain
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Map
of The Abyss drain with entrance and exit marked
Note: The map is not accurate and is drawn from estimates
of where features are in relation to above ground.
This drain is not one to explore, not unless you have a death wish. Certainly not to be explored by anyone on roller blades or skateboards. This is because it ends in a 30 metre drop over a cliff!
I've visited this drain twice, once in 2000 and again in 2001 with the Red Hands. This page's text covers my first visit, but uses images from both visits.
The entrance was in a golf course. The location given was for once right spot on the money. After parking the car I walked over to the nearest grille to notice a crap little 1 metre drain and my first thought was "Oh no, not more shit Little Drains!" My friend was ahead of me and he spotted the other grille. This was easily opened, allowing us to climb down to the drain below.
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Entrance area |
Looking down the narrow entrance |
The drain is very atmospheric, rust coloured walls, lots of leaves, lots of rubbish. A fair bit of wind blew down the drain. It was a bit low though. We walked downstream, keeping an eye out for this waterfall we had heard of. The drain is very low, back breaking stuff again.
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Squeesing in via the narrow manhole |
The drain is a low bastard one |
We expected it to be inside of the drain but as it turned out it was just outside the downstream end. All we could see outside of the exit was blue sky until we got close to the entrance. Both of us were scared shitless of standing near the end of the drain because the rock there was very slippery. Finally we decided to go back to the entrance and see if we could work out where the drain came out.
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Traversing the GPT at the end of the drain |
Holding on to each other while videoing the drop |
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Looking off the edge of the fall |
Looking over the drop. Note the top of the tree at right. |
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Me standing on the edge of the drop |
RC1 poses on the edge, and decoration of the drain |
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We emerged from the drain just as five golfers walked past. We waved at them and suggested they use the 9 iron on the Par 3 hole 7. I don't know what surprised them more, two yobbos climbing out of a drain or the fact that we knew a bit about golf. To the right is a picture or RC1 exiting the drain taken during the 2001 Red Hands expo to this drain. Back at the end of drain we took some good images of the drain's waterfall and the old sewage works in the bay below. |
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Looking over the 30 metre drop |
The waterfall photographed from a nearby hill using telephoto lens |
The waterfall photographed from a distance off using telephoto lens
There's a waterfall in there somewhere
This area is prime real estate now but once it used to be an old sewage farm. One of the foot bridges across the creek is in fact part of a sewage main. The area now has been reclaimed as a tennis court. It looks quite nice now, the old concrete looks eons old, like part of an ancient machine left from another civilisation.
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