Cleaning out the water well and an ancient unexplored cave

The property has a water well with a windmill that is about 14.5 meters deep.  At the bottom is has about 1.5 meters of water that comes into it from an ocean of fresh water that the Yucatan sits on top of.   But adjacent to the well is a cenote that has filled with dirt and needs to be cleaned out.   So the well was dug down thru the rock and then there is a cavern under the well, and another well that goes on to the bottom.

The photo in the cavern with the worker with suspenders on shows the Mayan men that I had come and clean out the well.  This needs to be done every 10 or 15 year to get out any dirt that maybe have come into the bottom.   I did not get to video them going into the well, but I do have a video of another well I had cleaned out in Yaxcaba 2 years ago. It's interesting if you'd like to watch here.







also interesting is that at the bottom of the cenote there is a cave.  You can see the opening.  A person would have to crawl into to get inside.  But once inside it is huge.  I've shined a flash light in it and its deep and long and tall.  I asked the former 92 year old owner if he, or his children, or his parents every explored the cave.  He said adamantly "no".  In Mayan he said that if it was meant for a man to go inside the hole, the hole would have a space big enough for a man to walk thru.   Very superstitious.  I dropped the matter.  I've still not gone in it.   Besides this cave we've found another large cave that my workers say you can walk down into from the surface.   











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