Is Telford diveable once again from land?????

[dabigcattt]

Just saw that someone posted pictures of themselves diving Telford from land. Does anyone know who we can contact for permission like this person must have done? or did they actually post pictures of themselves trespassing?

[TracyN]

Just saw that someone posted pictures of themselves diving Telford from land. Does anyone know who we can contact for permission like this person must have done? or did they actually post pictures of themselves trespassing?

It is still tresspassing and from what I understand if the land owners catch you, you will go to jail. Not worth the risk.

[MORGAN]

...did they actually post pictures of themselves trespassing?

People post all kinds of incriminating stuff. Florida Wildlife magazine had an article a couple of years ago about some miscreants that shot a deer out of season and proudly posted numerous photos showing themselves and the dead deer, all conveniently time and date stamped. My retired game warden dad got a big kick out of seeing that.

[FW]

I drove by there Christmas, and the land route was still gated, and locked.

[jj1987]

It is still tresspassing and from what I understand if the land owners catch you, you will go to jail. Not worth the risk.

Hugh? Last time I talked to the person who manages the Henderson land trust he said basically they don't care about cave divers, but the local police said if they want them to enforce trespassing, it has to be enforced for everyone.

[cmint]

Not about any particular place, but I've seen people on posted land before. I always assumed that I didn't know the whole story, they might have been friends of the owners or even the owners themselves and took the "mind my own business" approach. Seems to have worked out pretty good for me so far. I figured it wasn't my circus and I had no idea whose monkeys were there.

[MORGAN]

Not about any particular place, but I've seen people on posted land before. I always assumed that I didn't know the whole story, they might have been friends of the owners or even the owners themselves and took the "mind my own business" approach. Seems to have worked out pretty good for me so far. I figured it wasn't my circus and I had no idea whose monkeys were there.

Yup, me too. That's really the only reasonable approach unless you're the landowner or a law enforcement officer.

[tflaris]

You can access if you swim up the river which is what people are doing. But do not step on the land going in or out of the spring. Otherwise it's trespassing.

Hope this helps.


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[Kelly Jessop]

You can access if you swim up the river which is what people are doing. But do not step on the land going in or out of the spring. Otherwise it's trespassing.

Hope this helps.


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We have been following this rule for Telford, and the when I talked with the owners when it was first closed, they were agreeable to this,because there issue wasn't with the cave divers. This "rule" is trying to apply to some navigable water way rule,but trying to do the same thing at other springs,will get you a visit with law enforcement which will consider you trespassing, and the need of a judge to sort it out. There is a spring on the Suwannee that some cave divers a couple years ago used this "rule" to rationalize with the owner when caught. They were told to leave now, or he was going to call the sheriff.

[mdax]

There is working with property owners and there is bending over because you don't have a spine and let ignorant people push you around.
Two different things.
If you can boat up to the spring and don't step on land the owners can't do a darn thing about it, they can call the cops or holler, whatever...dive all you want.

However at Rock Bluff they may just decide to shoot shotguns overhead continually in an attempt to intimidate you.
Not a big deal, they usually only act out like that when they really have one tied on imo.