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:D We are open for cave diving now. Please remember the water is still tannic colored and the cave is dark from the tanic water. The viz is 20'-40'
and the flow is up. They tell me the Peanut Tunnel is pull & pull.
Also there is a tree in the Waterhole Sink the sink and the Waterhole cave tunnel are closed to all diving at this time. Mike M and Lee Ann are the first official divers in the system. Kelly, Jim & Jim Fishback conducted the check out dive.
PS Celia come on out to play!
Too late, I am back home now... but I'll be there next weekend!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by PSSP
Thanks!!!
Celia :-D
It helps when you live less than 2 miles away, your gear is always in the back of your van and your tanks are full :-DQuote:
Originally Posted by PSSP
Yep, got a tip on the cell phone and managed to sneak one in before the park closed, went up the mainline. Flow is going pretty good for Peacock. Walls are dark brown but not "fuzzy" like after the hurricane floods. Cool dive, looks like Manatee without the high flow.
Ok Mike, just rub it in now... I really tried but it was not to be. I did get my deco cookie though (secretly the reason I come to Luraville, diving is just an excuse) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mmcauliffe
See you all next weekend or during the week if I can.
Celia
You know I had to :-DQuote:
Originally Posted by amphipod06
Mike - sitting here with a cup of coffee and a deco cookie...pouring salt into to the wound LOL
I'll be around the shop next weekend then my schedule changes to time off from the park during the week (Tuesdays & Wednesdays) thank God, the weekends in cave country are getting nuts, Ginnie was a zoo yesterday. I would rather be off mid week and deal with a fraction of the diver pressure.
You are not kidding, Mike - we counted five reels off the main line by the sign in the ear when we first went in on Sat. We had to wait a few minutes to actually be able to enter via the ear on our second dive and there were plenty of traffic jams in the cave at all the tight spots.Quote:
Originally Posted by mmcauliffe
Kind of fun actually when going down the main line as every tunnel we looked down was lit up by HID's at one point or other... :-)
Can't wait to get back up there and hop back into PII. Hope y'all save me a deco cookie, too.
LOL.....and you wonder why I like working the weekends :-DQuote:
Originally Posted by Starryskies
Safe diving,
Rich
How is LR doing? I've been in Ginnie because of the floods but I am itching to get into LR again.
Peter
My last 29 dives have been at Jackson Blue. I am ready for flow that is "pretty good for Peacock."Quote:
Originally Posted by mmcauliffe
Russell
and then some :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sludge
Rich - I'm with ya brother, can't wait to get back to having mid week off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Must have just missed you Pat, I bailed from Ginnie early and headed for home, if I had not done that, I would have missed the Peacock dive...turned out to be a great alternative.
Well, if you boys get board with Peacock and start missing that flow just come on up to Madison after june 1, the flow is rippin'. You'll feel right at home...and then some :wink: Oh yea, no scooters either.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeWayne
Sounds like a stop is called for on the way home from the CDS workshop, Karen does not have to be back to work until 10pm on the 2nd 8)Quote:
Originally Posted by mmcauliffe
Peacock rules change: be out of the water by 5:00 year round. :evil:Quote:
Originally Posted by pdoege
Royal: closed, flooded and dark
Cow: open, basin clear but water dark, 10-30' vis, very dirty, expect 10' vis and to loose the line repeatedly on exit. Lines are grey/brown and heavily coated like everything else.
Little River: closed and diveways still under water.
The misquitoes are horrendous: bring a blood pack for an emergency transfusion.
I hope that you are kidding with the refeerence to Peacock :cry: If this is for real did they offer a reason, such as to reduce the hours of the staff :?:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary
No. I verified it by driving by the park. The park was open until 7:45 as normal and the rangers still have to be there but the new policies were posted at the gate. That part has changed to:Quote:
Originally Posted by DeWayne
Plan your dives to be out of the water by 5:00: NO EXCEPTIONS!
That part made me very angry but there were lots of nice new diver benches all over the park though. The two facts seemed so totally at odds with one another (the new time and the new diver benches). The new time seems like a directive from above.
We were actually planning a Peacock dive but decided that we'd have to dive somewhere else.
We went back after our Cow dive. Peacock Springs State Park was empty at 7:30 (probably by 6:30). We had talked to some divers at the fill station and they were rushing to get in by 4 so they could get some drills done and out of the water by 5.
I heard that they may be adopting Manatee Springs rules for all the state parks and also forbiding scootering at all the state parks as well. :evil:
It would have been better for the Peacock Springs rules to have become the model for all the parks: the only park that had any idea what they were doing in the first place and friendly to divers.
The rule to be out of the water by 5:00 pm is a state wide rule. Its been on the books for years. Tallahassee is having it enforced now.
What's P3 looking like?
5:00 pm makes sense in the winter, when it gets dark at 6, but in the summer we have to be out of the water FOUR HOURS before sunset? This makes no sense. But since I'm not a tax paying resident of Florida, I guess I don't have a voice.
Russell