SKP2 plans take shape

At the National Caving Congress in Heure (Belgium) we made some publicity for our second SKP-benefit-evening. At this meeting Erik Claes gave a splendid slide show, Rik Martens presented officially his film “Soqotra, pearl in the Arabian Sea” and I talked a little bit about our next ambitious trip to the island. More than 300 people enjoyed the adventure with us and all support goes straight into SKP2. Thanks for all your support!
“America under attack”, hopefully this will not make things to difficult to go back to Yemen this year?
29th: SKP-benefit-evening. Rik presents his Film, Erik his dia's. It was a success. 300 people wanted to live the adventure with us. We thank our friends and relatives for their support.

National Geographic and FoS initiation

A small summary of our first expedition is published in National Geographic Nederland-België. Many thanks for the interest and respect for our work, we will probably bring more exciting news in next years edition. Sorry for our foreign friends, we will try to publish worldwide in the future?
On Saturday 25th I will give a brief lecture about the importance of our work at the inaugural meeting of the Friends Of Soqotra at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh.

SKP: the movie?

We made our first contacts with the well known cineast (in the cavers and recently archaeological society) Philippe Axell, from Axell Communication. During our next expedition a documentary will be made about the island and its secret underground treasures.
If you want to know more about this film, or if you feel like this is the change to immortalise your commercial name/logo, then you can be our SPONSOR!

Intreaging archaeological remains...

Some archaeological finds look more interesting than we thought. The results will be published soon. We will inform you on this website when everything is studied and published. We will make sure that, in cooperation with the concerned official bodies and the Yemeni Government, all artefacts and surroundings will be protected.

SKP website = a must...

Our new website is partly updated. We would like to apologize to all people from whom we 'borrowed' some internet-pictures to put on the previous site. This site is only in English for the moment, our Dutch speaking friends and all French cavers will have to wait a little while. On our new website we only show pictures which were taken by the members of he Soqotra Karst Project!

SKP goes International!

After more than six months e-mail contact with John Farrar, he and his wife Rose came to visit us in Ghent (Belgium). We all got the know each other in a Belgian pub between some strong Belgian beers and we visited the biggest cave in Belgium: 'la grotte de Han-sur-Lesse' in the Ardennes.
It was marvellous to actually meet our new team member ‘John’, who will join our next expedition at the end of this year.

First Belgian Cave Exploration Meeting

Great to collaborate with this first new "Belgian Cave Exploration Day" meeting.
Still rather small scale, but at least very interesting and high level!