Drain entrance.

Warning! This account of exploration contains spoilers. If you want the mystery of this drain to remain, don�t read on further.

Guy Fawkes drain is named after a certain English dude who tried to blow up the English Parliament some time back in pre history just after the dinosaurs died out, when first class travel involved sailing ships and Cobal was invented.

This drain is located near the Capital Building in the State Capital. in fact it almost runs under the Capital Building. Without a doubt the tiny shit crawl drain pipes at the end do run under the Capital Building.

Because of its� close proximity to the aforementioned building, there have been many rumours about Guy Fawkes. There are tales of a door into the Capital Building. Tales of motion detectors, of federal police escorting you out of the drain.

Now it was with all these sort of stories behind us that we first ventured out to explore this drain. You can imagine our trepidation and worry. We had a very vague location �pop manholes near hut� so the first time we went looking for the place we ended popping a manhole on the creek downstream from the hut and found a shitty 3 foot drain which was in fact Guy Fawkes, but the lower end of it.

After reading through information provided by other drainers we found out we had to go upstream. Doh! We had been less than 50 metres from the entrance without even knowing it. The entrance was remarkably easy to find, we felt a bit stupid at missing it the first time. I suppose first time we really didn�t want to find it.

The entrance has a small machine gun post type grille box. With a round pizzabox manhole in it. You can clearly see inside the drain, where a cob web hangs on a metal wire. We saw that an pondered if it could be an IR motion detector. Sure we know what they look like, but maybe it was camouflaged.

In we walked, leaving the manhole open. In case we needed to go out fast. We walked in, noticing the total lack of graffiti in the drain. No tags at all. We strained our eyes, looking for detectors. About twenty to thirty metres in we spotted something ahead in the flashlightlight. A kind of grey thing sticking up like a short pole in the drain�s middle. We wrote some rather appropriate words on the drain wall. We stood there debating weather to go on. Our logic was that even if it was a detector we should be able to run up and take a look at it before running away. The thought did occur to us that there could be a camera installed there, and none of us had face coverings.

So we slowly walked up, expecting to hear an alarm at any moment. I have to say it took guts. None of us have been in trouble with the cops before so we didn�t look forward to ever having a run in with the authorities.

We reached the thing and looked at it, trying to spot detectors. It looked vaguely familiar. Kova suddenly realised what it is and said:

" Oh s^&*t (or something in that) It�s a fluro light!"

Sure enough, that�s what it was. The whole drain was decked out with fluro lights. They ran right along the roof. We ran down the drain, checking for detectors in the lights. To our relief, the cable between the lights and a small side pipe had been cut. The orange cable went up this little side pipe. Beyond that more fluro lights were installed in the ceiling of the drain. A whole row of them. Just left there.

We wondered why the drain would have fluro lights in it. Maybe it was a secret passage way for pollies. Some sort of emergency exit? We pushed on into the drain. We came to the waterfall room. We decided that we couldn�t be stuffed going further and we were scared in case there really was sensors, so we chickened out.

Later that day though we wondered what if the tunnel led on to something good? Besides, we forgot to take pictures first time round. So we went back. One thing that we noticed was that the fluoro lights weren�t even attached to the wires leading out of the drain. The wires were cut and dangling in the water. They might be able to be used for electrocuting drain explorers but that was all. The wire that was cut disappeared up a small side drain that allegedly had a "huge shaft" in it. Hmm. Who�s huge shaft?

Up beyond the waterfall we found the drain was low. Back breaking stuff.

About fifty or so metres past the falls was a small room with a split. Or maybe it was a bit further, because there was another small room before it with a capped top. We laughed at the "explosive exit" graffiti someone had written. Pretty smart thinking.

We hate low drains. They just suck. They kill your back. But this one was different. We walked up the drain, looked through both of the side tunnel, pondered the high ladders leading up to manholes then got the hell out of there. Still killed our backs.

So, the mystery is solved. No motion detectors, no secret doors into the Capital Building. For that matter we figured that the drain wasn�t even good for the purpose it�s name sake had in mind. Because it�s so far under ground you would probably need a hell of explosive in it, and most of that would just blow down the tunnel and out the grille.

Warning! Some drains contain deadly spiders such as the white pointer, funnel web, huntsman and red back. No, red back is not just a beer type. Some spiders will not appreciate you trying to drink them. The RSPCA may arrest people harming drain spiders.

Do NOT enter drains. Read this warning!

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