muyes phil 1972 Journal 5-5 mi 5 Tobati'guird, Dept Cordillera Paraguay which produced a christopher & a gecko. 120d The cave is in a cerro a long lay ridge of rock that looks like an ancient volcano, but the rock is a sandstone (some) The soil where there is any is sandy, & the streams are lucid. At the base of the hills there is some tropical low forest, & it is heavily cut for firewood. On top of the hills there is a wide series of flat step-plain, up to several ha in size which support only grass & larch which except as for trees along watercourse. Much of the surface is bare rock or loose sand. We pitched our tent in a sheltered area among rocks & laurel. We were met (serendipity) by some high school kids on a holiday. They said they knew of a lost cave nearby, & would be delighted to take us there. He had been within a few hundred feet on 7 Oct. The cave faces w, & is at the base of lar cliffs formed by slabs of rock perhaps lay a softly underlay sliding away. Doesn't look rather clean, & good. The passage goes back 10-15 meters & branches eventually most becoming too narrow for us.