A shallow passage disappeared beneath the lights, where the central gully spilled out from an enclosed tunnel. Drac, Dsankt, Nivelo, Rogue, Guru, Pizzy, Curly, xm, Jade, Liao, Lanor, Scarecrow, Trainman & The Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney Cave Clan. A little further along, a painted sign reads: TO THE CHAMBER. send me an email if it would be okay to join you guys one day.. peace, I was at the repat hospital last week & on a notice board there was an old pic with a bomb shelter ent. (Aproximatley 1910) , Old Sleeps Hill railway tunnel, near Eden Hills in January 1961 , SLEEPS HILL: The northern end of Sleeps Hill railway tunnel 1992 , The southern end of Sleeps Hill railway tunnel 1991 Source, Ildraino (the Cave Clan Zine by, Infiltration of the Mushroom tunnel 1991 Source, Ildraino (the Cave Clan Zine by. Can anyone recommend a good rooftop in Adelaide CBD that has views out into the country from all directions.? The poison runs thick and fast through Adelaide. According to legend, the Bean clan killed and ate 1,000 people in a 25-year reign of terror, while hiding out in a sea cave on Scotland's south-west coast, between Girvan and Ballantrae. Check out this site when you get a chance. The baby was handed to this man by a young woman with bright red hair and blue eyes, who was wearing a hooded, floor length green cape. Jade, "And people, young couples on the Torrens, didn't have anywhere else to go, so what can they do?". May I simply say what a relief to uncover somebody that really understands what theyre discussing over the internet. ALWAYS tell a RESPONSIBLE person where you are going, when you expect to be back, and when to send an emergency team to search. where abouts is the entrance to the drainstation in sydney? These rules include: Although first aid kits are shunned. A good Newbie can be used for Cop baiting or PIR detecting. In the country, this drain is shaped in natural rocks. I was wondering who would pick it up, and whether Id ever hear from them. Explorationeers from other parts of the world generally refer to themselves as 'Urbexering Mole People', or sometimes 'Thieves'. Keswick Military Museum archivist Paul Longstaff said he had never heard of such an installation, despite a photograph on the Awesome Adelaide website picturing what it describes as a communication bunker in rural Adelaide. They are popular meeting, expression and exploration places for the Australian Cave Clan, THE urban exploration organization. Part of that station was repurposed for the Adelaide Casino, which opened in 1985. It is a fact that Ozzie 'Poo pipe fanciers' are the most urbexiest of all urbexers in the whole world. Until recently, accused members of the Family still had suppression orders on them, therefore the media wasnt allowed to mention them by name. And you can view it on Google Maps Pizzy, Tanya's got her head on straight. Here are that some pseudonym's some famous Clanners go buy: A member's worth is measured in the number of keys they have. Drac, I used to frequent the urbanadventure web site. Urb ex/draining is for everyone, don't get caught up in their petty wanna be elitist crap. Follow her on Twitter, First media shoot for "People" magazine in 1989, Skeleton in the 14th District catacombs, Paris, 2001, Gilligan, Prowler, and Cro in Paris, 2001, Sloth in the Third Man Tunnels, Vienna, 2001, Sloth, Woody, Doug, and Cobra in Melbourne, Misfit, Doug, Prowler, Alien, and Seanile in Melbourne, 1991, Bob, Amik, Hatchet, Maddog, and Bathory in Adelaide, 2001, Doug, Myth, and Bathory in Canberra, 1998. Pull your finger out! But seriously, I've seen only a few posts from you, and they're all replies to people like me who want to be independant saying stuff like we can;t do that and the Cave Clan is better. Nice site by the way Slyv, let me know if you ever plan on coming back - I have a few more good places for you since you were last here. It is not discouraged either. A Google search of these names reveals many photographs of the city's concrete drain network thanks largely to secretive urban explorers, Cave Clan, a movement that started in Melbourne, or . I was getting fed up with waiting anyway. SA Water's Craig Williamson said it is likely to be connected to a trunk water main with a 750-millimetre diameter pipe running from Kangaroo Dam. "Some of those date back to 1880 and they were so well constructed that they're probably going to outlast all of us," he said. Great read. If someone actually told you that they were lying. It is known that the Water Board is extremely jealous of the 'Compass Clan's' location lists because it is a lot more extensive the any official list of underground cavities. The Gates of Doom Tunnel part of Adelaide's underground. ", Cave Clan founders (from left) Doug, Sloth, and Woody, in Melbourne, 1988. Not spam, just a site of drain dwellers you may enjoy http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=draining;id=25;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.angelfire.com%2Fok%2Fbunkerboyz%2Findex.html. How can I get in contact with this group? Only clanners in Australia are considered to be truest members of the Cave Conglomerate. Rachel is a notorious character around Adelaide, most know for her theory that there is an (unproven) tunnel system under Edwardstown that is used by a network of Pedophiles. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. Punishment for all crimes: . Rachel Vaughn. The Cosmic Clan is consulting with NASA, advising them on possible ways to find abandoned alien structures on Mars & or other planets. Where Newbies are at the bottom and Drain Gods are the apex. From its exciting early beginnings word spread to other towns, which the group would travel to, as a way of trying to make friends and exploring new abandoned sheds in paddocks. Rachel Vaughan said some of her abuse was filmed at a local TV news station for the equipment but this news station also has a popular TV show about reporting on this type of story. As Doug knows too well, the group seems to fascinate people. thank you. Beneath the steps, the ANZAC Drain continued towards the source of the stream. I really really want to start exploring the storm drains in Melbourne. This is not widely know and is kept secret from members off less then 25 years membership. ", Most famous Cave Clan member: The following is my fully submitted report, which was compiled from my secretive dealings with Cavern Clan members. There are awards presented for the Best First Year Explorer, Best Drain, and the dubiously titled, Goes Furthest Up Drains. Does anyone know locations in Melbourne? The 'C/C' mostly comprises of extremely mid-core bogans and hipsters who enjoy walking though 4 . I think its printed on signs more as a deterrent than anything else. Pls contact me if u know, Hi Ive been looking and looking and I cant find the exact location as to where the drain is. Melbourne and im interested in knowing how to acess the tunnels under adelaide but have never been able to find any entrances can someone plz give me an idea on where to go atleast cheers. http://caveclan.org/forums/gallery/albums/userpics/10221/IMG_1667.JPG. Drain God's have no use for torches, they simply bathe in the light provided by the newbies. Instead they just look like kids out adventuring. "I had these boxes of old Cave Clan photos sitting in my garage just gathering dust," Doug explains. But anybody under 18 who reads this is now going to know as well. The walls were covered with images ranging from personal tags and signatures (including those left by visitors from other chapters of the Cave Clan), through to full scale murals. It is a well known true fact, that the blacker the hoodie, the more sneaky the urbexer'er. I'm a photography student, and really interested in the different drain locations + how to go about getting inside. bbs.keyhole.com nearest manhole. Guru, Ive taken that background info out of the post, so hopefully now this whole article will mean nothing to anyone who doesnt already know the location! Unless you are a Drain God, in which case the uniform is white overalls or a reflective vest. We got a half hearted reply then nothing. This particular drain was constructed in1910. "Back in the 1980s and 90s we had these things called boat chambers, and we've had people do inspections of that trunk main during low flows in the early hours of the morning," he said. Circle-jerk nights are very popular and Urbex enthusiasts will travel from all over the world for the opportunity to get pictures of old-school members on drugs. Membership is a complicated system of social ranking, structured on the pyramid scheme model. Whats address? If an accident is caused and it is not funny enough, then that explorer will be 'iron fisted'. It gets as large as 2.6 metres in diameter before it reaches the Bolivar water treatment plant. The 150m tunnel in Eden Hills stored the State Librarys most valuable documents, artefacts and records and the 290m tunnel in Panorama was used to store ammunition. They will decide which Pootube videos are available for watching, which HDR photo's are deemed acceptable and who will be voted in as the next commissioner for police. I believe he said pump faults were regular, I'm trying to get info, maps etc of the underground caverns in Adelaide. Its good of you to remove too much location info from the public eye but if possible a *hint* on location even a suburb would go very appreciated, of course if your hint helps me find it you would get a mention in my tunneling photo blog. In 1920 they were decommissioned and replaced by a dual-line tunnel because trains were getting heavier and a purpose-built viaduct for trains at the other end of the tunnels was no longer strong enough. "We certainly haven't sent boats down there for many years now but initially it was designed for that.". 29 Comments |. This impressive statistic has been achieved buy following a rigorous safety standard which is imposed by the clan itself. access to tunnels by adelaide university and torrens river. A strong slope gave this drain its name. its this huge basin right next to a pumping station and there a whole heap of drains there its madd as and i can send you photos of it. Nivelo, It's also one of the main reasons that people join groups such as the Adelaide Cave Clan. Long live urbanavdenture.org! - Wizard. For this reason, every day urbexerers from all over the world travel to Australia, to learn from the Mighty Chamber Clan how to not suck at doing Urbexering. I googled some old drains names and found an old 1995 drain location sheet from the Cave Clan. http://urbantwilight.net/displayimage.php?pid=430. Great kudos can be gained by stealing location lists from other Graffiti or crime syndicate groups. Its a local tradition that whoever discovers a new drain has the right to name it. The person who shines his torch down one will be given the title 'hard core'. Approach.doc They must also show their competency in such skills as: Using beer cans as tripods and also using Steel wool and glow-sticks as light sources. A Train Station can be seen from this drain. Im an Adelaide tunnels and have exhausted my travels in the limited tunnels of Adelaide. Amazing! I've no doubt there will be hidden spaces and vaults beneath Adelaide's buildings, hotels and even government establishments that I haven't peered into during this investigation. Jade, The Clan cultists will then stand around and 'Shit talk' or even talk about shit, for around-a-about 2 hrs. Sweet Adelaide 424. "There's a story getting around that there was a massive painting of King George in storage," Tunnels Wine Storage owner Dave Munro said. Adelaide was built for war, I'm guessing there'd be somewhere they meet up. The 'C/C' mostly comprises of extremely mid-core bogans and hipsters who enjoy walking though 4' sewerage pipes, or watching 'urbex' videos on Yourtube. I really need to get around to writing more of these posts, hey byzey- if youre in adelaide you should hmu and we should go exploring some time- im 15, email me at [emailprotected] and ill give u me snap if you want. The Cave Clan, or 'ASIO' as it is sometimes known, is a mysterious sub-sub culture which is involved in 'urbexing' related activities, sometimes referred to as 'recreational trespassing', which is a polite way of saying 'break and entering'. Can anyone help e with some places? The reason for this is unclear, because everyone knows everyone else's real names from Facebook anyway. Infiltration of the Mushroom tunnel 1991 Source, Ildraino (the Cave Clan Zine by Doug). The remaining mid-core urbexites will now walk around the block counting man hole covers. Both tunnels were built 600 meters away from each other, one in Eden Hills and another in Panorama. This division within Cave Club is called 'Cave Class', or C/C for short. Examples of individual chapters and how they differ: Other chapters send members to Shiteney to learn how to shit-stir and shit-talk from the best. It's the club for people who like exploring storm drains. Who gives a shit who is better? Panic is back with his group of imaginary friends to save the day. After seeing this I knew there must have been more to this story. Rachel Vaughn and her half brother Andrew McIntyre has a long list of sickening abuse allegations against their father Allan Maxwell McIntyre, you can listen to their full testimony to see what I mean. It is advisable to at least have medical beer on hand, for use in treating dehydration and washing out wounds. Then, when the location is 'listed' the Old-school will receive the credit for the location. Someone please help, Hey!! Founded in 1986 by a trio of Melbourne teenagers, the Cave Clan has since grown to become the world's largest organisation of urban explorers. The Julia Farr Home for Incurables Mr Williamson said there was only standard freshwater reticulation mains around Rundle Street/Mall and they reached just 300 millimetres in diameter. To curb the increasing media spot light, the Cave Clan contacted Jean M. Auel and contracted her to write a book titled 'The Clan of the Cave Bear', with the soul purpose of stuffing up people who are trying to Google the 'Cave Clan'. Also, once the children were ritualistically killed their bodies would be dragged through a tunnel system under Cross Road to a butcher, where it would be sold to Satanists as meat. http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=draining;id=25;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.angelfire.com%2Fok%2Fbunkerboyz%2Findex.html, Encountering Haitian Vodou: Le Grand Cimetire of Port-au-Prince, Homeless in Havana: How a Travel Disaster Showed Me the Real Cuba, Myth & Memory in the Balkans: The Spomeniks of Former Yugoslavia. "It was more exciting before they discovered it," an ex-Repat worker told me. The ANZAC Drain might host all the best Cave Clan parties, but it is only one very small fraction of their domain. "People said we lived down there, preparing for the nuclear holocaust, stockpiling supplies," Doug says. The Sleeps Hill tunnels are currently owned by a close relative of Anthony Munroe, who was also a member of the Salvage and Expedition club and a person of interest in the Beaumont Childrens disappearance Rachel Vaughn, Also in the early 1980s I was taken to an Adelaide hills location where (including myself) about 9 other children, as well as about 50 adults were witness to the murder of a baby boy of around 10 Months old. And so, donning my coveralls and recruiting the services of an equally adventurous ABC cameraman, we ignored the stench and plunged into darkness for this second part in our Curious Adelaide investigation into Adelaide's tunnels. As far back as 1925 people were curious about underground Adelaide tunnels, when an intrepid reporter explored this city beneath a city . I emailed them asking why they havent done a report on it and how that looks lol obviously I heard nothing back. The standard of artistry ranged as broadly as the subject material with a few of the pieces standing out from the rest as works of not inconsiderable artistic merit. With each year you belong to the Club the amount of rules allowable to break increases, until you become an old-school fool, then you pretty much have to commit murder in order to be booted. It is generally accepted that the brighter the torch the better the explorer. If you have not had your photo taken standing on someones remains, then you are just not considered to be a proper urbexerer. After sitting vacant for more than 30 years, the Julia Farr Hospital's 'Home for Incurables' has finally been demolished. If so I've spent too much time living under a roof, I need to go live under some rocks! The 'Cave Clan' was originally started by a group of social misfits that shared a passion for exploring an abandoned shed, in a local paddock close to their mum & dads house. (you can email me if you'd rather no mention it here - wzard @t cave clan .dot. "Zorga really pioneered the whole effort in Adelaide, contacted the Melbourne guys and got the scene moving here.". Should you find a bricked-off doorway or remnants of a tunnel crawling off to another subterranean den, pay attention: You may have just found a missing link. could they be any further from a cave. http://urbantwilight.net/displayimage.php?pid=1178. If you do somehow become a member, you will then be invited to Clan events which are called a Sexpo's. Thats made me sad, that has. What started as three Melbourne teenagers sneaking into drains, soon. This is probably because Australian 'locations' suck, so Aussie explorerers have to try harder. These underground drains carry out the canalization of rain water, completely separated from sewer networks. Guru, Dare ya! Nearly all have been taken in low to very-low lighting conditions, and most on Canon digital equipment. A final belief regarding the war is the idea a much larger communications bunker was installed beneath Adelaide that would kick into gear in the event of a major incident. And the noble pass time of 'Urbexering' was invented. Ive just been back through the article and given it an edit removing any exterior photos that might help to identify the place from outside, as well as deleting a few comments. Dripping wax stains on shelves and lintels around the chamber gave an idea how they might look, in use. in the background & they were asking if anyone knew the ent. A 'Newbie' would do well to remember, that you must be a well known exploerer before you are allowed to buy a torch that is over 600 lumins. The abandoned tunnels became an exploration area for the locals until World War II in the 1940s. They have lots of drain pictures, maps and best of all, an up to date Google Earth file of drains and tunnels all around the world. She asked if there was anyway he could've gotten out or crawled to a safe spotbut I knew there wasn't," he recalls. Brian's mother called Doug after the summer storm. From time to time the eerie silence was broken by the sound of footsteps from above. Doug bought a Polaroid camera in 1987, about a year after he, Woody, and Sloth founded the Cave Clan on January 26, 1986. V, eli's tomb, zogra's tomb. A fellow explorer who goes by the name Lite, said Zorga inspired him and his friends to check out Adelaide's underground spaces. Natural light filters in from above, reflecting off the stream which follows a recessed path along the central gully. Unfortunately due to the state of Australia's new 'NBN', all uploaded content must be a maximum of 480p. Doug comes back to a 15-year-old Cave Clan fan who died in a storm drain near Northcote Golf Course during a heavy summer storm. For a location to be considered 'good' it must feature a wank station. The only way to join the Clan Cave is by solving this mysterious riddle, that is written in almost every drain around the world: Only members of this secretive organisation know the answer. If you think this shit is cool and you plan on becoming the next K-rad-elite drain explorer, then you need to read this. Membership today includes a vast variety of people which include; Lawyers, Police, Undercover Police, Undercover ASIO agents, Under cover Sydney Water agents, retired cat burglars, active cat bunglers, Coffee shop waiters, drug dealers, sex toy quality assurance officers, but mostly just people who work in IT. In fact, if there is an abandoned shed in a paddock, you will probably find a Cave Clan tag and a stained hanky in it. When a location is found, that finder gains a certain amount of 'Kudos credits' which may be spent in various ways. Hopefully I'll be proud of it for the rest of my life. A bag in one corner was filled with unused tealight candles. Your email address will not be published. "When I was 16 I never planned for the Cave Clan to become anything like it ended up becoming," Doug tells VICE. To curb this, addition membership requirements may be added. "Apparently one of the sentry guards saw a rat, so there was a bloody big exhibition to try and get this rat because they were worried about the King George painting getting destroyed.". Long time since but I would love to go again. During the early settlement of Adelaide the 'Morialta' tribe was sipposed to have been murdered and their bodies dumped there at Prospect. Limited spaces available. Forum mods are the rulers of all Urbex related activities world wide. xm, They probably answer directly to Peter Dutton. A photoblog of Adelaide's abandoned buildings, underground tunnels and places to explore. SA Water's biggest wastewater pipe is the Bolivar trunk main. I've compiled a small Google Earh file showing the names dates and locations where Urban Explorers have died and I have 15 already. The lumins of an Ubexering Persons torch has a direct relationship with how many hankies they have left in sheds. Trainman Where is this underground graffiti? That's okay mate. I had spotted the Chamber up ahead long before I knew what I was looking at. Checkout the timelapse video. The main structure fronting North Terrace remains virtually unaltered but in 1890 there was significant rebuilding at the . On this secret cave thing I know of a small group of troglodytes building a small petra/dmanhur cave temple in undisclosed location (I have been told it is 113.84km bearing 138deg from worlds end). Im from Adelaide and trust me . Approach.doc And for a Mid-school the lowest possible position is soft-core. It is hard to imagine a trip to Melbourne without this informative piece of literature. i mean get with the groove, go with the younger generation. In 1919 the viaduct couldnt support the weight of the Heavier locomotives so a third tunnel was built to the east.

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