I think the problem is that we all just assumed that the landowner wouldn’t mind if we crossed his property. To my knowledge there was no negotiations entered into with the landowner about using his property to access the cave. Even though the directions to access the cave across the landowners property was published in the Rock Climbing in the Hunter Valley guide book.
As for the reasons why? I’m not sure. We tried to contact the owner but he was unavailable, Trent being a local spoke to the landowner’s son who said that his father wasn’t happy with people crossing his land and that he wouldn’t hesitate to call the police.