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Hey Everyone. I am looking for some info on dry caves in Florida. I would like to go try dry caving. It would need to be a tourist style cave because I will probably take the wife along and she doesn't know anything about caves so repelling or anything like that would not be a great way to start her out.
Any help and info would be great.
Thanks,
Ken
The nicest tourist cave in FL (maybe the only) is Florida State Caverns in Marianna. http://www.floridastateparks.org/floridacaverns/Quote:
Originally Posted by K Mejean
Get a hold of the Tampa Grotto of the NSS...they do dry cave tours/cleanups, and orientation days quite a bit.
And...prepare to get REALLY filthy!
Hey! That is good clean Florida mud :-DQuote:
Originally Posted by phreaticus
I 2nd contacting TBAG (Tampa Bay Area Grotto). Also touch base with Florida Speleological Society. Marianna Caverns is the only one I know of where you can just show up, pay your fee, and walk through. Bat Cave is cool and can be done with no rapelling. Tucks Cave is a fun little cave, dry, and rapelling is optional. It's a good place for a rookie to try it out, though. The Catacombs is gorgeous, but does require a little climbing to get in/out, and is very wet.
Walter Pickel is a great resource for dry caving on here, as is Matt Vinzant.
Ken, there's some dry caves just east of Eagles Nest I go to sometimes, I can send you directions. Not as spectacular as those in Marianna, but it's fun to crawl around and get stuck a little...and think how great it is you're not diving when it happens!
Dave
Thanks for the info everyone. I will get with Walter and see what he can tell me. Loquat .... let me know the next time you are headed to one of these dry caves. I would love to tag along.
You know, with a big set of stop logs and a few pumps, we could get any of them pretty dry.
Sure, we can dive the nest sometime then hit the dry caves.
Dave
I really want to do some dry caving, also!