Peacock 1,2,and 3 are closed to diving at this time per park management. Orange Grove is presently open but please be aware that this may not be long lived.
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Peacock 1,2,and 3 are closed to diving at this time per park management. Orange Grove is presently open but please be aware that this may not be long lived.
Hearing OG is showing some signs of changing,so the system may be headed for complete reversal very soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop
Unfortunately, not surprised. We dove P1 on Wednesday morning and viz was 40' at best and milky. Mullet were jumping in the spring run, and OG looked pretty milky already. And that was before the extra 3-5" of rain got downstream...
Heard that OG was already down this morning and am not sure why the WSPS State Park web site still has OG open - it may just invite swimmers and divers (OW, Cavern and Cave) while there is only about 1' of viz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop
OG was brown this morning. Cow is flooded out and brown
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Damn!
Double damn.
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Looking at gauges,I see a crest approaching very soon at Luraville.
Anybody been by Peacock or little river lately? Looking for a prognostication on when they might be divable.
We're up in Mariannna until Tuesday or Wednesday and we are wondering if we should plan to just stay a bit longer.
Both thumbs down
With the rains on Saturday it will likely get worse.
Ginnie and manatee are still good
South Georgia got heavy rains Friday that went into Saturday,plus there were some local rains. I suspect we will see the Withlacoochee going back up,and the Suwannee sustaining its level. Clearing may be a little longer than previously thought.
Thanks, we're going to stay and extra day or two up here then.
Does anyone know if Manatee has been filling the quota every day or can we get in without showing up an hour early and waiting for them to open.
It's pretty empty on the mill pond. All the boats are at the dock and we only saw one other team at JB yesterday. Flow is stong at JB and vis at HITW is only about 30' upstream.
HITW should get much better once you jump off into the Century Tunnel and travel another 1000' or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon Nellis
With one of your scooters that would be like 5 minutes into the dive :-)
It did clear up about 500ft off century, but then we kept hitting pockets of really frigging cold water before I clipped the silt with the nozzle in a low section about 2200' back. At that point, the novelty had worn off and it was time to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by nakatomi
Note to self, don't do that.
After getting back into clear water, the most notable thing was the lack of line arrows for about 400ft, but there was a pink mechanical pencil tied to the line pointing the way out that I missed on the way in. Some new type of direction marker?
The way I remember it, the line arrows are space at 100' in the deep section. At some point, I think there might have been a T there, it gets shallow for the first time (around 40') and the arrows stop. I don't remember seeing any more arrows until the end of the line. The shallow parts were very pretty in February with great visibility. I'll post a little video from one of the dives we made in the photos and video forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon Nellis