Hello from a Newbie

[paul chong]

Hello everyone, I am Paul and I am new to the world of caves and mines, I have done some nice drains and culverts in the past but only three mines to date including Hendre and Cwmorthin, I got the interest after attending a newbie solid fuel mine explore that was organised by Nwex forums and ever since I have been hankering to get back underground.

I am 48 years old, keen photographer, getting into a bit of video too after buying a kodak playsport, becomming fascinated by super bright torches and battery life, I am definately a boy, I shoot Nikon and am ofcourse Handsome.

Hello to everyone

[mike leahy]

hi paul
 welecome to our site hope you enjoy it and if you fancy coming underground some time just give us a nudge or keep an eye on the forum and come along to one of our thursday evening meets . hope to see you underground soon

[Ian A]

Hi Paul,

Welcome to the site and delve into anything you want

Hope you can get out with us .... we do have a couple of keen (and very good) photograhers in the club and there are always many opportunities to take some good shots.

There are also weekend trips as well as Thursday evening - there is one back to Cwmorthin in May - keep an eye on the trips and you are welcome to come along.

You are, of course, also welcome to join :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:



Ian

[paul chong]

Thanks for the warm welcome Mike and Ian, I can see that cavers united is a friendly place and I appreciate the info about  the meetings etc, I am going to have a good look around the forum and get myself even more embroiled in caves and mines.

thankyou both again

[Ian A]

[mike leahy]

[quote="paul c" post=6157]Thanks for the warm welcome Mike and Ian, I can see that cavers united is a friendly place and I appreciate the info about  the meetings etc, I am going to have a good look around the forum and get myself even more embroiled in caves and mines.

thankyou both again [/quote]

if you look through the knowledge bank you should find some nift photo's that the lads have taken

[paul chong]

Cheers Mike, There are deffinately some talented photographers here...brave too judging by some of the pictures

[John Nicholson]

Hi Paul,
I am also relatively new to exploring caves and mines, and have learned a tremendous amount having joined UCET. You don't say where you are located.  We (Bella and I) are near Bangor. We would like to meet other explorers for weekend trips if you are around.

[paul chong]

Hi John, thankyou for the Welcome, I am in wirral and always happy attend group meets, I have been to two group mine meets so far and found them fascinating and YES UCET seems to be a wealth of knowledge...hopefully some will rub off on me.

[Joel Colk]

Hello and welcome to the forum Paul

Look forward to meeting you soon.

[paul chong]

Thankyou very much Joel, your pictures are absolutely top drawer and it would be great to meet you too:)

[Xan Asmodi]

[quote="paul c" post=6168]Thankyou very much Joel, your pictures are absolutely top drawer and it would be great to meet you too:)[/quote]

As said himself, he's a n00b... :p Welcome along, Paul. Let's get going again soo

[paul chong]

Cheers Xan...yes a trip underground is needed