Primož Jakopin, photo diary

Velika Karlovica and Mala Skednenca
Over the rocks, over the mud

February 5, 2025, 24 pictures

          Most images are approximately 768 x 1024 pixels in size, numbers in front of the picture descriptions are serial numbers of the original photo files. Jože Stražišar of Karlovice Caving Society ploration Society (Jamarsko društvo Karlovice) made a contribution to the success of this excursion. Names of cave parts were often given by the author.

          Page, texts and photos copyright (c) Primož Jakopin - Klok 2025.


 

Planinsko polje


 


 
54888. View to the south, behind the Javorniki ridge was a pointed cloud with a tail.


 

 

Velika Karlovica


 


 
54889. View from the Zvinger viewpoint to the east


 

 


 
54890. Bluebells, Galanthus nivalis


 

 


 
54891. View from the top of the cliff above the cave towards the south, to the meanders of the creek; above the middle of the picture, horizontally, the stream also flows into the cave Mala Karlovica.


 

 


 
54892. View from the same place towards the east


 

 


 
54895. Memorial plaque to the explorers of the cave above the entrance to Velika Karlovica


 

 


 
54893. The plaque in a closer view: Steinberg F(ranc) A(nton) 1684-1765 / Dr. Ing. Vicentini R(afael) 1875 / Ing. Putick V(iljem) 1889 / Ing. Hočevar A(lojz) 1921 1939 / Braniselj J(ože) Dol(enja) vas 52, 1925 / (stonecutter, author of the inscription, lower right) 1942 M(ilan) Dukič.


 

 


 
54896. View from the dam in the entrance of the cave to the east, to the wooden rake in the riverbed






 
54898. Whirlpool in front of round pipe in the cave entrance dam. The length of the concrete line above the bottom edge of the image is 90 cm.


 

 


 
54902. View back along the tunnel leading from the entrance to the cave towards Mala Karlovica. There is a reflection of daylight to the left of the author. As at the previous excursion to the large cave of Matarsko podolje, both red floodlights were on test. This time too, they worked very well and most of the interior photos were taken with these lights, supplemented by a small LED lamp for foreground illumination.


 

 


 
54903. A round recess in the eastern wall of the tunnel, just before the siphon


 

 


 
54900. The ceiling of the Connection Tunnel drops down to the water level here, and one would have to wait for a dry season to cross.


 

 


 
54905. A 22 cm long bone that was deposited one and a half meters above the floor by high water.


 

 


 
54906. View back towards the entrance to the cave, across the stream bed. Lighting: daylight, red floodlight on top of the stone in the foreground, another very small light to illuminate this stone.


 

 


 
54907. The water was still too high and the tunnel from the entrance to the cave to Mala Skednenca was submerged here. The transport bag is 40 cm long.


 

 


 
54908. View to the east (left Mount Slivnica, right Javorniki ridge) from the edge of the riverbed, near the entrance to the cave, from a point 2.5 meters above ground (the lens was at the end of a tripod, which the author held vertically in an outstretched hand).


 

 

Mala Skednenca


 


 
54910. In a collapse in the cliff above the edge of Lake Cerknica, about a hundred meters north of Velika Karlovica, is the entrance to Mala Skednenca (Velika Skednenca is between Mala and Velika Karlovica). To access it, it is not necessary to push one's way through the bushes at the foot of the cliff, but to follow the fishing path along the riverbed and when a widely branched apple tree is reached, this cliff indentation shows up.


 

 


 
54912. The cave entrance is in the left (southern) corner of the previous photo. There is also a crack in the right corner, but it quickly ends.


 

 


 
54911. An approximately 3-meter-high fissure above the entrance


 

 


 
54913. View from the largest room in the cave (where one can stand) towards the entrance


 

 


 
54914. At the southern end, the continuation has a dead end, yet two passages fork off to the right (to the southwest). Above the entrance to the first one there is a red arrow pointing downwards. A strong draft indicates that the passage, narrow as it is, runs towards Velika Karlovica.


 

 


 
54915. Approximately three meters back (towards the north) there is another passage, without draft, which the author assumes leads to two rooms that Jože described him. He pushed himself into the opening, feet first and after one and a half meters it opened enough that he was able to turn around. The tunnel split a little further, the left branch was a dead end, and the right one continued in the form of a narrow passage. But more high than wide, so it was not possible to crawl straight through it, but sideways. Like many places in the Boybuloq cave. The sideways narrow passages are, for the author, something to avoid. He chose to return, and had minor problems crawling back. 


 



 
54916. There is not much stalactite decoration in the cave, most is of more ample shape, like in the works of the Colombian artist Fernando Botero.


 
 


 
54918. View across the riverbed and the plain towards Mount Slivnica, when day had already turned into night


 

 

Related pages:


 


 

  Unnamed cave in Matarsko podolje, January 30, 2025     Velika Karlovica, February 15, 2025  
 


 

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