Agen Allwedd Turkey Streamway 1995

Photos by Ian Wilton-Jones, Peter Wilton-Jones, Tarquin, and others, edits and gallery effects by Tarquin. The pictures in this gallery are over 10 years old at the time of publication, scanned from old prints, and were taken on our second ever cave photography trip. That will explain the quality (or lack thereof). The year is an estimate - I apologise if it is wrong.

Aggy is a very sparsely decorated cave, compared with the beauty of the neighbouring Daren Cilau and Craig a Ffynnon. It has some selenite crystals in Main Passage, some helictites and straws in Maytime, some more helictites in Iles inlet. It actualy has some calcite rafts in Helictite Passage. However, the greatest concentration of stal is in Turkey Streamway. The formations are all old, dry, and stained. But beggars can't be choosers, and the stal is actually quite good given its surroundings. This gallery shows most of it.

1. The Beehive - I show you this picture first, not only because it is the first proper formation, but also because it is just about the worst picture, with ... erm ... interesting modelling, and a fuzzy shot - the theory is that they can only get better from here
2. The curtain stalactite beside The Beehive
3. Stal under an overhang
4. A conjoined clump of stalactites, with helictites growing on the back
5. Double curtain
6. Longer curtain and straws
7. Stal coving
8. Calcited rocks
9. My personal favourite multi-curtain formation; it looks just like a cuttlefish.
10. You know when a cave has not got many formations, when you bother to take pictures like this - OK, so it's not so bad, but it's certainly no Hall of Thirteen
11. Bacon rind curtains
12. Immature curtains
13. Large flowstone and gour pool formations, a little further upstream
14. Badly fractured stal on the opposite wall
15. Your Halloween film crew in Turkey Streamway; Peter, Tarquin, Anon, Anon - The Professionals - yeah, right - perhaps it did get worse than the first picture after all