Mooraa Cave  5L067

 MOORAA CAVE .

 First mentioned in a December 1962 CEGSA Trip Report by Phil Connard (when he described the entrance only), 5L67 was first explored in detail by the author in the early 1980s, when more than 50 metres of passage was discovered and mapped.  The cave is a single joint-controlled passage running north-west to south-east, with a rubbish-choked collapse about halfway along and an easy walk-in entrance (from a small degraded collapse doline) at its south-eastern end.  

The first main section of passage is about 8 metres long by 3 metres wide with a flat 2 metre high ceiling, and it constricts to a low crawlway-fissure on its right hand end where it leads on for another 4 metres or so into a stand-up section just before the central rubbish-pile.

Access to the section of cave to the north-west of the rubbish pile is safely possible only from the central entrance – the mound is too nasty and unstable to negotiate from within the south-eastern end of the cave – and this leads to an interesting 25 metre-long section of passage which contains some huge rectangular boulders stacked on each other, up to about 10 metres high.  

The north-western end of the cave restricts to an inaccessible vertical fissure, which appears to turn to the left (west) a little several metres further on.  No breezes were noted at this point, so it would appear unlikely that the cave continues into anything substantial.

 In recent years, the cave was named Mooraa Cave by the Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA) after the local Buandik Aboriginal words for "wombat".  *

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