Blue Spring, Orange City

[metaldector]

Orange City got smacked good from Fay with whole neighborhoods flooded. We went Sunday August 24 to Blue Spring and found it was closed to all water activities including diving due to several large trees that fell close to the boil.
We went back today and the spring was open to diving but the river is up 6 feet making it a swim from the diver stairs to the boil. The big trees are lying under the water and most of the run is covered with sand from the collapse of the banks of the run into the water. Much sand also fell into the boil which pushed the sand onto the limestone shelves throughout the system. Inspite of that the water while greenish was clear with at least 60' viz.
The park has closed the run from the diver stairs to the swim dock and we were told that they are going to build a new swim dock soon. Currently water is over the swim dock and so is a hazard to swimmers.
Going on a Tueday instead of a weekend was a delight, no crowds to mess up the viz. But with the water up there shouldn't be many swimmers able to touch the bottom anyway.

[sskasser]

Ugh! The CFC is having a cook out there this weekend, doesn't sound too good! Thanks for the update, though!