Defining the Anti Social

We've just about established that the Anti Social will take place at Jackson Blue Spring in October, but we have people going at it from two different directions, so we need to decide exactly what it's going to be before the time draws short.

The first Anti Social was a completely unstructured event. The only thing about it that was organized was that we agreed on a date. Folks showed up and dived. That was it.

Many people on this forum are viewing the upcoming Anti Social as an extension of the usual socials. Renting the pavilion, having a cookout, door prizes, kids and families...

I don't have a preference as to which direction we take, but it can't be both. First, Jackson Blue Spring County Park isn't set up for non-divers during the off-season. We have the occasional non-diving spouse, but I don't think I've ever seen a bunch of kids there. I don't know how the county would feel about it, unless we went all out and rented the park for the day.

We should have a discussion concerning the pros and cons of organized vs. unorganized, and by August, make a decision.

If anyone has any experience dealing with the Jackson County Commission, you get to volunteer. I know the ladies who will be attending would love for the restrooms to be open!

Russell

Well, thinking back to the last social at Ginnie.... someone took the beer home early with them and only left 1 gallon for the rest of us. I only hope that area gets looked at more closely!

Diving is an activity that I like to do when I travel over 4hrs to a location... :wink:

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Originally Posted by carrive1

someone took the beer home early

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I don't believe beer is allowed at Jackson Blue Spring County Park.

Russell

We can have a big fire and hang out and BS after the dives.

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Originally Posted by Sludge

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Originally Posted by carrive1

someone took the beer home early

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I don't believe beer is allowed at Jackson Blue Spring County Park.

Russell

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Ah yes - me forgots. JB sure is a great dive - what a great place to have an anti-social.

What dates have been settled on? If I'm off over that weekend, I'll be there...and I don't really care whether it's formal or informal. I have not yet been to JB, so it'll be a treat.

What do they charge to rent the park out? I'm sure that would be cost prohibitive....though, if you don't have an annual pass and plan to dive 3 days, you're looking at $75 for just one person...so who knows.

Mike

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Originally Posted by MikeH

What do they charge to rent the park out?

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I'm hoping Kelly will chime in. The last time I was there, there was a birthday party going on, and the guy told me it was something like $85 plus $2 per person. But that wasn't diving.

I'm guessing they would charge something like $85 plus everyone would be responsibly for their diving fees ($25 or annual pass), and all that would really get us would be unlocking the restrooms. If we decide on an unorganized Anti Social, we'd just forego the renting of the park, and do without restrooms. It would mainly be up to whether or not a bunch of folks want to bring non-diving family members.

Come on, folks, let's hear some opinions.

Russell

I think it is definitetely worth renting out the park if its in the $100 range. This allows spousal units, kids, and others who tag along to come along and enjoy the day.

I'll come either way, but that's my vote.

I'll see if I can get in touch with one of the commissioners tomorrow and get some numbers. Maybe if we have twenty or thirty divers coming at $25 a pop, they'll have someone come by to unlock the restrooms. It's worth a shot. If that works, maybe we can be allowed to bring a grill and do it like the other socials. Twenty divers paying $25 each is about five times what they usually get for parties.

I don't know how to set up a poll, but I'll try to get one of the other moderators to set one up to see how many people want to bring non-diving family.

The poll from last month showed October 22 to be the most popular date, so I'll shoot for that.

Russell

Bleh, I say we rent a couple of the boats from good ol' Edd and have a cooler full of beer and a grill on one of them. After the day of diving, we just do a twilight party cruise of the pond...

but whatever, i'm down for anything that is "planned"...

I just assumed that anything called "anti-social" would be opposite of a planned social event... :-D

Well I can be very anti-social if y'all would prefer :twisted:

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Originally Posted by Tegg

Bleh, I say we rent a couple of the boats from good ol' Ed and have a cooler full of beer and a grill on one of them. After the day of diving, we just do a twilight party cruise of the pond...

but whatever, i'm down for anything that is "planned"...

I just assumed that anything called "anti-social" would be opposite of a planned social event... :-D

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Now you're talking. A booze cruise with a grill is all we need. We can tie two or three of the pontoon boats together and have a blast. There's plenty of bathrooms all around the boats!

Watch yourself Joe, it sounds like John L wants to get cozy on the twilight cruse. If anybody on shore hears some squealing, John got lucky and Joe got a husband. :fing36 :smt072

OUCH! :-D

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Originally Posted by RH

Watch yourself Joe, it sounds like John L wants to get cozy on the twilight cruse. If anybody on shore hears some squealing, John got lucky and Joe got a husband. :fing36 :smt072

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You don't have to be jealous Rich. You're still the best!

...other than the dates . Lets leave it simple : find accomodations(motel/camp), show up , team up , dive when ya want , dive again if you want , eat/rest on your own schedeule , hook up with a pontoon if you want, FREE BEER @ CAVE ADVENTURERS(thanks Edd), Roshambo challenges 24/7 and a new event a NO HOLDS BARRED-NO TIME LIMIT match between the "SID" and "HERBIVOROUS" . That weekend we can decide on who/when you want to eat , sleep, dive with etc.. maybe we agree on joint BBQ an afternoon , maybe a campfire/bs session one evening etc... As far as JB entrance fees its no different than diving at Ginnie or Peacock: cave diving equals $. Good times and dives with good people free of any organized bs. My three cents worth, oh yeah I did hear some loud squealing last time I was at Waynes World ... did someone think "Tegg ?!" :P

Thanks, Herbie, for getting this thread back on track.

So Herbie votes for an unorganized event, like last year's. What does everyone else want?

Russell

Here's some information I got from Margaret at the County Commissioners Office:

We can rent the pavilion next to the spring from 8am until dark for $32.50. This fee may be waived if we have a lot of divers. All divers will have to pay the usual $25, or have an annual pass. Non-divers will pay $2.00 per person.

The big thing is, the restrooms will be open!

The date I talked about is October 22.

If any non-divers want to get in the water, we will have to have a lifeguard present at $7.50/hour. But in October, folks probably won't want to swim.

As always, no open-water diving allowed.

I'm headed out of town for the week, so when I get back, hopefully we will have had enough discussion on this board to make a decision.

Russell

That's CHEAP.

IMHO we'd be nuts not to do it.... and $2/pp is their "swimming" charge, which is also very reasonable.

I'm for it.

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Originally Posted by Herbie

oh yeah I did hear some loud squealing last time I was at Waynes World ... did someone think "Tegg ?!" :P

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Herbie... is that you? :?:

Is it really you? :?:

Naw, can't be... :wink:

That sounds real good. What we did at the last cave cavort was get one or two grills going, and we had a community cook out. Everybody had their food and threw it on the grill and you got to try everything, and it don't cost much to do if everybody brings something.

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Originally Posted by Sludge

The big thing is, the restrooms will be open!
The date I talked about is October 22.

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WOW that alone gets my money. Awesome for non divers at $2. If any want to swim I will have the surfboard express on /off a pontoon boat anchored close by. Also can be used as a beer barge , I guess. Pavillion and bathroom access, 24 hour dive access, family friendly( especially the kids playground) , BYOB/BYOF + some to share, good folk(except for Dr. D), its just gets betta n betta. :-D

We missed you Herbie, I had to be the naughty poster all by myself! Welcome back, Cindy :)

Hmm, I think I'll be down there about that time . . .

Yo Herbie, you da man brah. That is what the anti-social was all about last year: breaking away from the formalized BS and just getting together to have a good time and dive. This thing was starting to become anything but an anti-social. Now that Bill has his place down on the pond, this year's theme should be: the party is at Bill's place 8)

Hmmm, Biketoberfest or JB. It has been a while since I dove there. :)

I live here in Orlando and can say without a doubt Diving would be much prefered over Biketoberfest. I have rode to the last 5 Bikeweek and Biketoberfests and the crowds are getting out of hand, to walk down main street all you see is the back of the guy in front of you.... and the worst part..... They arrest any ladies that flash :cry: :cry: :cry: Go to JB you'll have lots more fun.

Curt

Divin' Ridin' Livin' in Florida What could be better?

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Originally Posted by Herbie

...other than the dates . Lets leave it simple : find accomodations(motel/camp), show up , team up , dive when ya want , dive again if you want , eat/rest on your own schedeule , hook up with a pontoon if you want, FREE BEER @ CAVE ADVENTURERS(thanks Edd), Roshambo challenges 24/7 and a new event a NO HOLDS BARRED-NO TIME LIMIT match between the "SID" and "HERBIVOROUS" . That weekend we can decide on who/when you want to eat , sleep, dive with etc.. maybe we agree on joint BBQ an afternoon , maybe a campfire/bs session one evening etc... As far as JB entrance fees its no different than diving at Ginnie or Peacock: cave diving equals $. Good times and dives with good people free of any organized bs. My three cents worth, oh yeah I did hear some loud squealing last time I was at Waynes World ... did someone think "Tegg ?!" :P

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Yeah man just like last time, no food living on pork rinds and wormy apples, get your own beer or box of wine, a little spntaneous dry humping to sooth the swollen genitalia after getting wollopped with Herbies flip flop, if you see someone jumping inthe water near a hole in the ground jsut go dive with them, damn my nipples are getting hard, maybe some casual sex with edd's dog, you know just take it as it comes. Sid just back from the dead.

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Originally Posted by curtschu

I live here in Orlando and can say without a doubt Diving would be much prefered over Biketoberfest. I have rode to the last 5 Bikeweek and Biketoberfests and the crowds are getting out of hand, to walk down main street all you see is the back of the guy in front of you.... and the worst part..... They arrest any ladies that flash :cry: :cry: :cry: Go to JB you'll have lots more fun.

Curt

Divin' Ridin' Livin' in Florida What could be better?

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Yeah, but Daytona is only 180 miles, JB is 450 or something like that.

I haven't had a bad time yet at a rally :twisted:

JB would be nice!

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Originally Posted by Sid

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Originally Posted by Herbie

...other than the dates . Lets leave it simple : find accomodations(motel/camp), show up , team up , dive when ya want , dive again if you want , eat/rest on your own schedeule , hook up with a pontoon if you want, FREE BEER @ CAVE ADVENTURERS(thanks Edd), Roshambo challenges 24/7 and a new event a NO HOLDS BARRED-NO TIME LIMIT match between the "SID" and "HERBIVOROUS" . That weekend we can decide on who/when you want to eat , sleep, dive with etc.. maybe we agree on joint BBQ an afternoon , maybe a campfire/bs session one evening etc... As far as JB entrance fees its no different than diving at Ginnie or Peacock: cave diving equals $. Good times and dives with good people free of any organized bs. My three cents worth, oh yeah I did hear some loud squealing last time I was at Waynes World ... did someone think "Tegg ?!" :P

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I ain't eating you and you aren't eating me; //herbivore snicker snicker
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Yeah man just like last time, no food living on pork rinds and wormy apples, get your own beer or box of wine, a little spntaneous dry humping to sooth the swollen genitalia after getting wollopped with Herbies flip flop, if you see someone jumping inthe water near a hole in the ground jsut go dive with them, damn my nipples are getting hard, maybe some casual sex with edd's dog, you know just take it as it comes. Sid just back from the dead.

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Hey, we offered you some Hot Meat last time Sid and you just gave us that patented strange look of yours. :twisted: