LupusDei
curious alien
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maybe he is trying to install a cool wine cellar- when he breaks through the existing wall, he discovers a void that links to the river/archeology dig?
Yes. How I was imagined it to be set up, that could very likely be how he breaks the back wall of the cave originally, yes. Or whatever else renovation work.
Only it's not an active dig (that would be... a bit unfortunate, disruptive, and a whole different dynamic anyway, even if could lead to something in a way even a car crash could) but an enclosed space undisturbed for millennia he then appropriates.
I proposed him to try painting for a hook of what they could discuss at length with his uninvited guest, but that's nowhere crucial. Maybe it is nothing more than a wine cellar for him indeed. The other entrance he either didn't know about (not realizing the underwater connection even existed), disregarded as inaccessible for possible human-class intruders, or even didn't care either way for the location possibly being so remote.
The girl (in the sense 50+ is a girl too, if desirable) arriving in the general area with the unrelated (at least up to that point) dig, likely unknown to him until then, enter the space from the other side with some difficulty (and I stripped her naked for my like to met nude girls randomly, and how finding one in the cellar could be fun) at possibly a significantly later date (could be years between those events), to discover the paintings, but timed with him either in the cave or arriving shortly after, in what would be rather routine visit to the space for him for whatever reason.
Despite her nudity, or even because of it in equal measure, that first contact need not and very very unlikely become close and physical, but still a hook for the place to become temple for two eventually. It also informs a probable reluctance for her to immediately report back the exciting new discovery for the slight embarrassment of the detailed circumstances of it (trespassing into someone's wine cellar in the nude). She may or may not eventually drag the whole team in, likely she does at some point, with all sorts of further branching possibilities if so desired.
While basically straight forward romance in it's core, growing from simple premise of hooking the girl to a special interest point on the guy's property, the inevitable special incidence bullshit talk between them would need some serious research into specifics of that hook, likely. Someone seriously into that field could see it the whole other way around, the freak event and sexual tension just as decoration for the otherwise possibly dry discussion.
But taking renewed homage to the topic title, the guy could set up a tourist destination afterwards.