Žan Kafol Aerial & cave photographer SL
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Škratovka Cave

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Škratovka is a 165m-long, 22m-deep cave with an intermittent spring from which a torrential stream flows. It drains into the River Unica and contributes to flooding on Planina Polje. The cave was discovered in 1950. It lies near the ruins of Hošperk (Haasberg) in Planina.

A brightly painted garden gnome stands in sharp foreground focus while a broad cave opening recedes behind it.
A visitor in red stands beneath the mossy limestone arch at the entrance to Škratovka cave.
A person stands at the shadowed entrance to Škratovka Cave, surrounded by mossy limestone and spring woodland.
The low rocky entrance to Škratovka Cave opens beneath a mossy limestone ledge in leaf-covered woodland.
A garden gnome overlooks the rocky entrance of Škratovka Cave, where a red-suited caver stands among fallen boulders.