Sunday, 20 May 2001
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!
Wednesday, 25 April 2001
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.
It was marvellous to actually meet our new team member ‘John’, who will join our next expedition at the end of this year.
Saturday, 3 March 2001
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!
Still rather small scale, but at least very interesting and high level!
Saturday, 17 February 2001
V.I.P. !
First diapositives are scanned by the winner of our post-card contest: Van Immerseel Paul, to whom we dedicated the VIP-room in Giniba-cave. Thanks Paul! The first topographic cavemaps are made.
Saturday, 10 February 2001
Thursday, 1 February 2001
Adaptation as a way of survival
We try to rehabilitate in our western society, which is rather tough when one’s mind is already back on the island. We are currently processing all data. Our more than 7 hours of digital video footage is quite awesome. The pictures, around 3.000, are just great. This was only possible through our exquisite team.
Saturday, 20 January 2001
Our first SKP-expedition results!
We safely returned from a fantastic, two week exploration journey on Soqotra. The island is really incredible and the discoveries are very rewarding:
We discovered gigantic cave systems (approx.10km) of which we mapped more than 8km in detail (with only two tape-measurer's of 20m each?!?).
We found an underground waterfall (approx. 4 l/s) under the dry and barren Deksam-plateau. This certainly opens possibilities for new freshwater resources.
We took biological samples for further research at the University of Ghent (Labo of Ecology) and abroad. One cave revealed some potentially interesting archaeological remains. We will tell you more about this subject later.
Again, many thanks to all members of the EPC and Biodiversity Project in Soqotra and in Sana’a and to all sponsors, volunteers, friends and family who made this expedition possible!
We discovered gigantic cave systems (approx.10km) of which we mapped more than 8km in detail (with only two tape-measurer's of 20m each?!?).
We found an underground waterfall (approx. 4 l/s) under the dry and barren Deksam-plateau. This certainly opens possibilities for new freshwater resources.
We took biological samples for further research at the University of Ghent (Labo of Ecology) and abroad. One cave revealed some potentially interesting archaeological remains. We will tell you more about this subject later.
Again, many thanks to all members of the EPC and Biodiversity Project in Soqotra and in Sana’a and to all sponsors, volunteers, friends and family who made this expedition possible!
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