50th Rated 5th March 1998.

The entrance to this drain is perhaps it's most stunning feature. No where else can you find an entrance like this one. Another interesting thing about 50th is in fact that it is two separate drains.

Drain Report

1. Entrance to Main tunnel.

Even though this tunnel is south of the entry road, we found it easier to access it via a creek on the northern side and walk through one of the multiple underpasses under the highway. The canal floor here is slippery. (One of these days some smart scientist is going to work out what makes those drains so slippery and is going to make a mint patenting it to use on non stick frying pans!) So anyway, a walk south through the pipes and we spoted an open, above ground drain leading left. Straight ahead however was the entrance to the drain.

2. Southern Exit. This tunnel isn't that long, but it is indeed huge. There's some very interesting graffiti in it, including some bits left over from when the tunnel was built. The tunnel is very easy to walk along. At a corner near the middle of the tunnel you can spot the southern end of the tunnel.

The tunnel exits into a creek where the water level is about twenty to thirty cms deep. There is the usual concrete baffles to stop storm surges from washing away the creek bed. Much to our amazement we even managed to spot several schools of small fish in the creek, or maybe it was just highly mutated drain slime.

3. Older tunnel. Now here's the interesting part of this drain system, it is in fact two separate drains. From the downstream entrance of the newer tunnel we headed off down the creek. We came to an underpass under a road bridge, not far past it, hidden in the weeds near the creek was the entrance to the older tunnel. In my opinion, this drain has a lot more to see inside it than the newer tunnel.

There are some rather interesting manholes in the roof of this tunnel, with some strange pipes and outflows about two thirds of the way up them. The step irons here are pretty rusted though so we didn't bother climbing up. About half way along the tunnel is a sort of message wall, mainly the names of people who have visited.

4. Northern entrance to older tunnel. Just before this entrance there are a couple of side tunnels that head off north east. Both of these tunnels are only about 5 footers so would involve a lot of stoop if you were to explore them. They do go very far though, all the way up north east almost to another drain.

The entrance to this drain is at the end of the side canal that runs from the northern entrance to the new drain section.

CIT. Rating:

Walking north up this drain will take you to the unique CIT, Corrugated Iron Tenth after about two kilometers. This tunnel is another unique one, being made from thick corrugated iron. It's overall shape is very much like the shape of Tenth and Mini-Tenth drains. It has a couple of obvious differences, the corrugated iron and it's floor. The floor is much smoother and flatter than either Tenth or Mini-Tenth.

Once again well feel it is prudent to warn you that this web site is not intended to encourage you to explore drains. The exploration of drains by inexperienced people may lead to death and injury. You may also shit your pants. For this reason no one should ever go in drains okay. No I am not being sarcastic, this stuff is really dangerous. It�s safer to surf the web and see everything from your home.

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