Dinosaur Cave

I revisited Dinosaur Cave as a day hike while camping Injusuthi for
the Easter weeekend, having first been there a few years back with Mountain Backpackers Club.It had been in pristine condition as it is hardly ever visited. I was therefore horrified to find it in the
state it was left by our drug smuggling brothers.

There were paper and plastic packets, boxer tabacco, bread etc (telltale signs of smugglers) strewn about, even in the stream below the waterfall and fires made all ,over the cave,even a fire place on top of a footprint !!!

We picked up as much of the litter and returned on Easter Sunday, a 24 km round trip but worth it, with brushes and brooms to complete the task.

The camp manager had never even heard of the cave and promised to have the field rangers keep an eye on it.

It is very sad to hear this, especially for a cave as significant as this one! The fact that this cave is being used heavily would indicate to me that smuggling passes such as Judge Pass are becoming significant.

I'm very glad to hear that you put in such effort to clean it up - well done!! I'm finding that on almost every hike I do these days that we are walking out with rubbish bags strapped to our packs (this weekend was no exception either - we cleaned up a pass in the central Maloti mountains in Lesotho, which is supposed to be part of a national park).

I'd like to appeal to all readers to follow this example. We can make a difference.

It looks like Dinosaur cave has become the "cave of choice" for smugglers using the Judges Pass Route. Litter removed from the cave and under the waterfall

Ugh! Good on you for cleaning this up once again! Will forward this on.