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	Mike carries out routine chores - emptying spent carbide from his lamp, and sealing the ends of some cord in a lamp flame.
	Sunburn was a problem faced by all of us.....
	.....as the clouds normally only flowed up to our height in the evenings.
	The rockface above our camp was a popular sunbathing spot.....
	Expedition Members, from the left: Andy Brooks, Sean Butler, Derek Cousins, Becca Lowes, Mike Dollenger, Geoff Beaumont and Tony Chalder.
	.....In the mornings it also provided some shade from the ferocious sun, though this disappeared by midday.....
	.....and it even served as a handy washing line!
	From the camp a derelict croft was visible across the valley.....
	.....and behind one of the buildings was a metal door in a rock face - the entrance to our second cave, Cueva Ying-y-Yohn..... (The name was derived from the way in which the local Spaniards pronounce Jim Thompson and John Wallworks' names, as it was unanimously felt that it should honour their contribution both to the expedition and to caving in the Picos in general.)
	.....where there was occasionally a salamander to be found.
	Through a small hole by the cheese shelving, the first pitch was found - the ladder was soon abandoned in favour of free climbing.
	The first pitch was above a hole, in the floor of a large rift, which proved to be the way on.....
	.....though our attentions were at first diverted by a constriction at one end of the rift. It didn't go.
	At the bottom of the hole was a 3m crawl, with a constriction at the end. The constriction was cleared, gaining us access to the second pitch, although the lack of belays at the pitch head meant that it had to be rigged from the hole.
	In the crawl, there were some attractive, but easily missed, false floors.
	At the bottom of the second pitch, another constriction had to be bashed. Beyond it was a third pitch, giving access to three small chambers, with quite a few pretties, including this attractive blue rock, on an inlet in the first chamber.
	The third chamber was a small aven, well decorated with calcite.....
	.....and with this fantastic false floor about three metres up.
The second of the three chambers contained a possible way on - a mud plugged hole in the floor. Unfortunately, it was beyond our means to dig this at the same time as bashing the constriction in Cueva del Cuesos, especially as the second constriction in Cueva Yim-y-Yohn is still thin-men-only. In addition, Cueva del Cuesos currently looks far more promising, and is closer to the farthest explored reaches of Cueva del Agua.
	We did, however, find time to survey Cueva Yim-y-Yohn - in total, three caves, including Cueva del Cuesos were surveyed, and some surface surveying done.