Caving events 

Northern Tasmania cave search and rescue exercise with MCCC, SES, Police, Parks and Ambulance
    services was held at Rat Hole, Mole Creek, May 21 2005.
Southern Tasmania cave search and rescue exercise hosted by STC, Mt Wellington, December 2005.
Tasmania hosted the National Australian cavers conference, "CaveMania" in January 2005. 
International Cave Rescue conference is being held in Hungary, May 2007.
The international cavers UIS conference was held in Athens, August 2005.
   the next UIS conference is to be hosted in Texas USA, 2009.
The international Biospeleology conference was held in India, November 2004. 
    for more information on conferences, follow the appropriate conference links from our links page.

Website recognised for excellence
 
In Dec 2004, mole.org.au was recognised for excellence with a Golden Web Award
from the International Association of Web Masters and Designers. 
To quote; "You and Your Staff at Mole Creek Caving Club have Obviously Worked Very Hard  - Proudly Display Your Award - " 

Michael born 

Janusz and Michelle became proud parents (and James brother,) of Michael, born 3rd May 2004. He already shows promising signs: mobility, curiosity, already hairy... quite the little caveman. All are well, happy and busy.

Marriage of Bob Broughton 

Club member of many years, Bob married Maggi Boughton on 2nd May 2004. We wish Bob and Maggi the best for their future life together. 

Vale Jeff Butt 

Jeff Butt, an STC caving friend of many of our members, and MCCC as a whole, died in mid-April as a result of cancer which ended his life unfortunately while he was in his prime. He will be greatly missed for his caving mastery, safety and conservation interests, personal integrity and friendly humanity. He was a gentle man and trod lightly on the earth. See STC's website memorial page for more about Jeff. Mick attended the wake at Hastings Caves and Thermal pool on May 1st with a number of his many friends to celebrate his life. 

"I, along with other members of the Mole Creek Caving Club, have met Jeff caving or at Search & Rescue exercises. I met and caved in southern Tasmania with Jeff a number of times over the years, and found many interests in common. I was much saddened at the news of his passing, and regret not having seen him in the last couple of years. My life was richer for having socialised and caved with Jeff, and I found being in the company of this gentle man of integrity was a privilege to savour. It seems he became the master of all he attempted, and he shone brightly as an example of humanity, beaming through his unassuming modesty. Thanks for being yourself Jeff; I honour you in your passing.", Mick Lichon

Summary of changes and additions to this site

July 2006 - much updating and several additions including World Cave News Feed

May 2005 - new page for Youth Outreach Program

December 2004 - recognised for excellence with a Golden Web Award

May 2004 - this news page!
                 - improvements to security of photo section, layout of most pages

April 2004 - many interesting additions to links page to explore

Early 2004 - our conservation page updated and new science and ASF codes pages added to this section
                  - new e-shop page to allow for online donations, payments and purchases
                  - new equipment and library pages

Late 2003 - hosting transferred to our own domain name http://mole.org.au. 
                   our old site location http://www.key.org.au/mccc now consists of a forwarding page
                 - added history page
 

 
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