Good news – no one has gotten miserably sick yet! We were all exceedingly worried about this after all the stories we heard from last year but so far so good. Today we continued removing the backdirt from the site. The entire cave was hazy with a fine cloud of dust making it difficult to see and breathe. It was really hard work. We were all commenting on how tan we were, until we went to wash our hands for lunch and realized that our “tans” were really dust!! Most of the excavation units had sandbags and tarps to protect the fragile walls and there were many large rocks thrown into the pits as well to provide stability.