Caving at Mount Buffalo's Underground River (3.5 Hours)
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Conquer the Underground River Cave
Prepare for an exhilarating subterranean journey beneath the surface of stunning Mount Buffalo! The Underground River Cave offers a thrilling granite boulder infill adventure, packed with exciting challenges, rushing rapids to clamber up, and hidden underground pools. Led by two experienced guides, you will navigate a fascinating maze of tunnels and caverns. 🌟
An Unforgettable Subterranean Challenge
For those who crave a dash of real adventure, this experience is designed for you. Crawl through intriguing gaps, climb up rushing waterfalls, and squeeze your way through spectacular granite formations. If you are lucky, you might even witness the cavern ceilings glowing like a starry night, illuminated by the spectacular local glowworms. 🌌
What to Expect on Your Adventure
- The Cave System: A horizontal boulder infill cave stretching 350 metres. We explore the exciting first 150 metres, navigating active streams, rapids, and tight squeezes. No roped work is required—just pure teamwork, scrambling, and fun! 🧗
- Season & Timing: Tours run from November to the end of April, typically starting around 1:00 pm. Join our scheduled weekend adventures or arrange a private group experience for your family, school, or corporate team.
- Location & Meeting Point: Located in the breathtaking Mount Buffalo National Park. We meet at the Mount Buffalo Gorge Stone Hut, just a short distance from the gorge visitors’ car park.
- Age & Fitness: Perfect for adventurers aged 8 and above (children must be accompanied by an adult). A moderate level of fitness and a sense of adventure are highly recommended!
What is Included
- Industry-standard safety helmets and high-powered, helmet-mounted lights.
- Protective kneepads and specialised caving oversuits.
- Two highly experienced cave leaders to guide you safely through every twist and turn.
What to Bring
- Clothing: Thermal underwear or warm synthetic layers (like an old tracksuit or fleece). Long sleeves and long trousers are essential as you will be crawling. 🧦
- Footwear: Sturdy runners or hiking boots (open-toe sandals, slides, or Crocs are not permitted).
- Medication: Any personal medication you may require (such as an asthma puffer).
- After the Cave: A complete change of warm clothes, dry shoes, and a towel. You will get wet! A plastic bag for your wet gear is highly recommended.
- Cameras: Only waterproof cameras are recommended.
Thank you for booking with Adventure Guides Australia.
Please keep a digital copy of your booking to show our instructors on the day of your tour.
Below are some information you might want to know before your tours:
- Car Parking: There will be sufficient parking at the meeting area.
- Mobile Coverage: limited coverage- Telstra is the best provider.
- For Tour Preparation, please see our attached tour file.
- What do you need to bring:
Clothes: Thermal underwear and or warm synthetic clothes such as an old tracksuit or fleece clothing (Long Trousers and Long Sleeves as you will be crawling on hands and knees at times). The underground river is a cold wet cave, but great fun.
Footwear: Sturdy runners or boots (Open toe sports sandals or crocs etc are not acceptable)
Medication: Medication as required (such as an asthma puffer)
After The Cave: A full change of shoes and clothing and a towel for when you finish the cave as we will get very wet! A plastic bag for wet and dirty clothing might be useful at the end of the Adventure!
Cameras: Cameras are not recommended if they are not waterproof - For Mount Buffalo Visitor information, please visit: visitmountbuffalo.com.au
We are looking forward to seeing you.
Team at AGA
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Children participants must be accompanied by a participating adult.
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As a complete beginner, I was initially a bit nervous, but the team immediately put me at ease with their friendly and professional approach. They provided a comprehensive introduction to the activity, ensuring I felt comfortable and confident before we even hit the water.
The river itself was stunning, with a mix of calm stretches for relaxation and exciting rapids that added a thrill. Our guides, Trina, April and David, were incredibly knowledgeable and enthusiastic, sharing fascinating insights about the river's ecology, including the habitat of local wildlife like platypuses.
Adventure Guides Australia provided all the necessary gear, so all I had to do was show up and enjoy the adventure. I was truly impressed by their professionalism and the overall quality of the experience. I'm already planning my next adventure with them, perhaps a caving expedition or an abseiling experience.
I highly recommend 'Adventure Guides Australia' to anyone seeking an unforgettable outdoor adventure in or arround Bright.
The river itself was stunning, with a mix of calm stretches for relaxation and exciting rapids that added a thrill. Our guides, David, Trina and April, were all incredibly knowledgeable and enthusiastic, sharing fascinating insights about the river's ecology, including the habitat of local wildlife like platypuses.
The Adventure Guides Australia provided all the necessary gear, so all I had to do was show up and enjoy the adventure. I was truly impressed by their professionalism and the overall quality of the experience. I'm already planning my next adventure with them, perhaps a caving expedition or an abseiling experience.
I highly recommend The Adventure Guides Australia to anyone seeking an unforgettable outdoor adventure in Bright.
David and will, our guides, clearly enjoyed their jobs and were gracious enough to continue this booking, despite only there only being my brother and I who booked for that Saturday. Highly recommended.
Booked in a group of 9 at Beechworth. Only one of us had experience, three of us are scared of heights and age ranged from 7-45.
The communication prior was excellent, and the guide on the day was brilliant. He catered for all our abilities.
Special mention for his gift in coaching all the children, especially our seven-year-old who was petrified, he assisted down the 8 metre, giving him confidence to try the 20m.
Best day. Booking in again!
Booked in a group of 9 at Beechworth. Only one of us had experience, three of us are scared of heights and age ranged from 7-45.
The communication prior was excellent, and the guide on the day was brilliant. He catered for all our abilities.
Special mention for his gift in coaching all the children, especially our seven-year-old who was petrified, he assisted down the 8 metre, giving him confidence to try the 20m.
Best day. Booking in again!
The staff are there with you through the whole experience.
I will definitely do it again.
Brad and Trina guided me down the rock face and I have never felt more safe.
Highly recommend this for anyone and everyone.
I felt safe, and looked after the entire time as I was a little nervous about caving. My family loved it, and seeing the glow worms was awesome. I would HIGHLY recommend going on an adventure with these guys. It was so much fun.
Guides were fantastic. Their knowledge of the river and local area was first rate.
Cannot thank you enough for your time.
Greg Ryan Therese Ryan Harry Ryan Jasmine Kiss
When I went to Mt Buffalo with a school camp (26 students) in March 2019, we did hiking and abseiling on the first two days and on the the third day we did caving. We were told the night before to wear long pants that we could fit knee pads under or over. We were to partake in two caving experiences. One dry and one wet. I wasn't too keen on either of these as I am claustrophobic and have very high anxiety. I made this very clear and still went ahead with the first caving/hike experience which was the dry one. I had about 3 breakdowns which ended in my sitting and crying and having a panic attack. I find these sort of things very traumatising especially when panic attacks are involved. I didn't make a scene about the first experience when we got back I just sat down and told the teacher I was not going to do the wet one as i had been told it was a lot tighter and you would be crawling through small spaces on your hands and knees.
When my group got ready to go caving in the wet cave I just went over and sat down (As I was told to do by the teacher). I was then asked by a lady i don't know the name of 'What's your excuse' as to why I wasn't going. At this point I was already getting angry as they had been yelling at my friend because she couldn't get knee pads under her SKINS. Which we were told to wear - long pants. But no, we were told the knee pads had to go under so the man; Les started yelling at her and being extremely rude. So; I responded to the lady that it wasn't an excuse and I actually had a reason. She replied very very rudely with 'well what is it then?'. I knew this wasn't going to go down well so i just said I am claustrophobic and this is where Les jumped in. (Remember Les - he's important) He then told me that I did not have a choice in participating unless I had a medical certificate saying I had been diagnosed with claustrophobia AND I was taking medication for it. At this point I was very very angry. I had never met this man in my life and he was making his own judgements and opinions on my mental health. I told him he doesn't know me or my life and he basically spat back in my face saying 'don't give me that bullsh*t'.
It ended with me yelling at him saying I wasn't going to have another panic attack over a caving experience that i didn't want to do or was interested in doing and since this was OPTIONAL I didn't even need to do it. I was dragged away by teachers and my friend and I broke down again and sat on the floor crying and at this point I was on the verge of another panic attack and couldn't breathe. (As was my friend) It took us about 20-40 minutes to fully calm down.
I was very very disappointed in this man's behaviour, there was so much that happened that I did not explain or mention; other things he said that i will just leave out. He should not be working with people let alone kids, he has no understanding and did not try to understand. I did enjoy the abseiling and everything else we did but these activities were done with Hannah and she was absolutely lovely and I really liked her.
I do recommend the activities even the caving especially if you're not claustrophobic but I am very angry, upset and disappointed with the guide Les. I did not have a good experience with him.
















