Conditions of Systems this weekend in Tallahassee

[tflaris]

With the excessive amount of rain previously and currently are there any reports for the states of the different systems near the CDS Social beside Jackson Blue and Merritt's Pond. Looking to dive RB no as far as I know Indian is out (OC Only with Guide).

Ames Sink
Charcoal
Cherokee
Church Sink
Emerald
Go Between
Gopher
Harvey's Cave
Harvey's Sink
Hatchet
Indian Springs
Kelly Sink
Promise
Sally Ward
Split Sink
Turner Sink

Any help is appreciated.
Upper River Sink

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Harvey's Sink and Harvey's Cave are the same right?

Upper River might not be on forestry land, not sure, but if it is... its a hellova long walk.?

Church is on private property. Dunno anyone who has legal access at the moment.

You can dive Emerald if you meet the prerequisites and are approved by whatever board handles that divesite.

Gopher is on private property and there's no accessibility right now.

Talk to the guides about Indian, but you may be out of luck on RB.

Promise and Go Between have 40' visibility(or better) as of last Sunday(5/17) according to Ben Gillespie who dived them. This was posted in your last post asking about those sites. Information on accessing these sites are also posted there.

Sally Ward is not open to diving.

Dunno about the rest...

[cwick]

The wakulla County Dive Club will have a booth at the event, stop by and talk with us. most of the sites that you have mentioned are restricted in one way or another but we can point you in the right direction.

[bgillespie82]

So far things look good.....just hope for no big rain in the next few days. I will be diving Harvey's on Thurs so I can give a report after and provide a recent report for other sites for the booth hopefully on Sat.

Bring bug spray!!!!

Ben

[bgillespie82]

Cherokee, Upper River Sink, And Sally Ward are all on Wakulla State Park Property. Cherokee can be dived though rumors are spreading that they closed it down due to economic reasons. The others.....only in time.

Again See the WCDC booth Sat and we can provide more information then.

Ben

[tflaris]

Thanks for the info. I did not have a comprehensive list before so just putting feelers out as I do not dive this area. Gear will get packed.

[bgillespie82]

See you there.

[OFG-1]

Ames Sink - RESTRICTED ACCESS
Charcoal - NOT WORTH THE EFFORT
Cherokee - AS OF LAST WEEK, WAS CLOSED
Church Sink - YOU CAN PARK AT THE CHURCH, BRING A GOOD ROPE, SMALL TIGHT CAVE
Emerald - DOESN'T LOOK GREAT FROM SURFACE
Go Between - DONT KNOW
Gopher - DONT CARE - 400 FEET OF SILTY MESS
Harvey's Cave - LAST THRUSDAY,VIS 15-25 FEET, BETTER IN CLEAR LAKE
Harvey's Sink - SEE ABOVE
Hatchet - GATOR IS BACK - LOOKS 300 FEET LONG, PROBABLY 9-10 vis looks like harvey's from surface
Indian Springs - AS OF SATUDRAY, 15-20 IN CAVERN - 40-50 UPSTREAM,MILKY, LOOKED LIKE HOLE IN THE WALL DOWNSTREAM 20-25
Kelly Sink - NEVER BEEN IN IT
Promise - DONT KNOW
Sally Ward - SEE IF WINGMAN WILL TAKE YOUR $300.00 AND GET YOU IN
Split Sink - REALLY DONT CARE
Turner Sink - RESTRICTED ACCESS PRIVATE PROPERTY
Upper River Sink - PRIVATE PROPERTY, NO TRESSPASSING SIGNS , LADY WITH SHOTGUN ON FAR SIDE OF SINK (Last time i was there)

We had rain again last night, rain forcasted through the weekend. I would not expect anything to get much better between now and then.

Ben is understating the bug spray comment. Bring fogger, bring flame thrower, bring napalm, bring a collection of shelter cats to tie out and distract the mosquito's.

[bgillespie82]

Ben is understating the bug spray comment. Bring fogger, bring flame thrower, bring napalm, bring a collection of shelter cats to tie out and distract the mosquito's.

Lets just say you could have a hell of a night with a bugzapper and a case of beer.

[Caver95]

With the excessive amount of rain previously and currently are there any reports for the states of the different systems near the CDS Social beside Jackson Blue and Merritt's Pond. Looking to dive RB no as far as I know Indian is out (OC Only with Guide).

Ames Sink
Charcoal
Cherokee
Church Sink
Emerald
Go Between
Gopher
Harvey's Cave
Harvey's Sink
Hatchet
Indian Springs
Kelly Sink
Promise
Sally Ward
Split Sink
Turner Sink

Any help is appreciated.
Upper River Sink

Where did you read about all these sinks and springs?