The Rock has an extensive network of natural caves and man-made tunnels. Part of the normal tourist route is to visit Upper St Michael's Caves - very spectacular and used for occasionally for concerts. We managed to organise a guide to take us and some other yachties into the lower caves.
What we didn't realise until we arrived was that we had to wear hard hats and that it was quite a difficult 3 hour excursion - crawling through narrow tunnels and openings and scaling up and down rocks with ropes! Quite a challenge but really worth the visit. The caves are enormous and absolutely stunning with huge stalactites and stalagmites. There is an underground lake at the end - 30x11 metres and 6 metres deep in places.
We are now at anchor at La Linea and fog permitting, will depart for Rabat, Morocco early tomorrow morning after high tide. More from there...
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