A group consisting of Alejandro Alvarez, Fred Devos, Chris Le Maillot, Simon Richards and Daniel Riordan spent the first two weeks of December 2004 exploring in Quintana Roo, focusing on the Punta Venado area just south of Playa del Carmen, and on the Yax Chen system of caves just south of Tulum. Members of the group had surveyed a number of wet and dry caves in the Punta Venado region over a number of years, and further prospects were identified during a walk of the area at the start of December |