Today (1/27/11) was my first of four days back in North Florida. Since I began cave diving, I was usually limited to 1 or 2 days, minimum travel time of 3 hours one way and no dive buddy most of the time, therefore I stuck with Ginnie Springs & Little River. On this trip I wanted to dive some other systems and go off the beaten path some.
For this I started on Walter's caveatlas.com website and began looking at systems near Dive Outpost/Cave Excursions & near Amigo's/Cave East. From here I compiled my list and began making inquires to some cave diving friends to find out what I could.
Last night (1/26/11) I mapped the locations of the sites I wanted to visit and laid out the plan of attack. My plan was to try and get in 3 to 4 dives in at different systems.
I started out the morning going to the copy center in Gainesville to get my CCR bailout tables printed and laminated for the following days, since I realized they were still in NJ. After wasting an hour or so there I started driving north. My first site of the day to checkout was Ruth Springs, upon arriving on site I was greeted by nothing but nature and a clean spring. Doing a quick walk to the water to check out the hole and it looked clear, I was excited to dive.
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I reached the exit of the cave at 54 minutes in to the dive, did a 5 minute safety top and surfaced. I really enjoyed this cave and liked how it would go from low bedding...Read More Here
