Growing up and seeing changes in wakulla

[ggoodman]

When i was a kid, not that im old now, we used to ride motor cycles all day and swim in the sinks. On ocasion i saw someone diving the sinks as we stoped to swim and cool off in them. Encounters were positive and impacted both my familie's and my opinion of the cavers and access to the systems.
As ive grown up i have watched as the diving and access in generall to the sinks of my youth has been cut off. I have found my self very bitter about the policies that have been instituted and at the people resposible.
Now in college, and activly learing the many skills and techniques in safe cave diving, it is nice to see that those places once closed are beeing reopened. If you've grown up in the Tallahassee Wakulla area as i have you know that almost all long time permanent resident know each other. It is truly a small world I intend to, as an adult, help minimize the influence that the elietest agencies have in my back yard.
I would also like to comment that with the eventuall reopining of Emrald, that cavers should at least make a small attempt to be nice to the locals and incurage inquery and educate those that you may meet here in Wakulla. As we still operate on the home town politics system ,and one bad encouter with the right old redneck or their kid can "make a bigger #### pile then heard a' horses."
Just wanted to get that off my chest after an encouter i had horse back riding and meeting a renigade caver who was kinda rude.

[dogwatch]

As somone who is a local - it might be interesting to hear your opinion of the degredation in the condition of the water quality in the sinks and springs during the past 20 years .... due to development, etc .... and pass that information on to local officials

[Caver95]

Who was kinda rude?

[Kelly Jessop]

I would also like to comment that with the eventuall reopining of Emrald, that cavers should at least make a small attempt to be nice to the locals and incurage inquery and educate those that you may meet here in Wakulla. As we still operate on the home town politics system ,and one bad encouter with the right old redneck or their kid can "make a bigger sh^t pile then heard a' horses."
Just wanted to get that off my chest after an encouter i had horse back riding and meeting a renigade caver who was kinda rude.

Good advice any where. I always remember the story of the cave diver who was nice to a local at LR,and the guy showed the caver a sink on his property that begged for line. The local he befriended's father was one of the largest land owners in the area. He got his own honey hole just out of being friendly.

[Dan Thoms]

Who was kinda rude?

Do we need to say more?

[ggoodman]

i try not to remember the names of the people i meet and dont like, and i dont think he was a locall, (T-Town or close by), otherwise i would have known him or at least heard of his name.

[MrSpooley]

Who was kinda rude?

I thought he was talking about you.

[Caver95]

Who was kinda rude?

I thought he was talking about you.

Easy Mrs Plooey. I am not rude to locals, only internet divers. Being nice always pays off, I met a guy saturday that has 3 sinks on his property, and lives a little ways from river sinks. I would just like to know so I dont take that person somewhere and he make an ass of the cave diving community

[Dan Thoms]

No worrys


Im good to go