NACD Halloween Social

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Only one month until the NACD Halloween Social! Come down to Ginnie Springs on Friday, October 31 and join in the fun!

This event will feature gear demos by OMS, Santi, Salvo, and Golem Gear! Don't miss this opportunity to try out some of the latest gear from these great companies!

Schedule:

All day to 7 pm: Trick or Treat dive with great prizes
9 am to 2 pm: Gear demos and swap meet
12 pm: Lunch
6 pm: Dinner
After dinner: Trick or Treat dive prize raffle and Costume Contest winner
Sundown: Campfire jam session and ghost stories

We'll have food, booze, and music all day but feel free to bring your own Halloween treats, alcohol, and CDs.

Save the date and keep checking back for more info!

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Here's a flyer

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What is the Trick Or Treat Dive?

The Trick or Treat dive will be an all-day event this Halloween at Ginnie Springs. The night before Halloween, a number of Orange non-directional markers (Provided generously by Tobin @ Deep Sea Supply) Will be scattered throughout some of the more common passages in Devil's Ear cave system. If you are doing a cave dive at Devil's Ear this Halloween and come across a blaze orange "cookie" with NACD and a number on it, take it! This is your raffle ticket and a chance to claim your "treat" later in the evening.

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Countdown to the NACD Halloween Social!!!!

Don't forget there will be a swap meet at the event. Get all your old gear together and bring it on down to Ginnie on October 31 starting at 9 am. We will have tables set up but bring a tarp in case we run out of room. It has been a while since the last swap meet in cave country so this is your opportunity!

A special thanks to Golem Gear, OMS, and Santi for being a part of our gear demos. Make sure you stop by Devil's to check out their great gear! The demos will be from 9am to 2pm so don't miss out!

We will also have kids activities throughout the day so feel free to bring the whole family! We will have face and pumpkin painting.

Don't forget to dress up for the costume contest! We will have a sign up sheet on hand so we know who dressed up and during dinner everyone will have a chance to vote for their favorite costumes. We will annouce the winners when we do the trick or treat dive prize raffle around dinner time.
Special thanks to the great stores who have offered to make prize/food donations so far: Extreme Exposure, Cave Excursions East, Dive Outpost, Salvo, Santi, and Deep Sea Supply. If you are interested in donating a raffle prize from your business, please pm me!

Bring your favorite Halloween themed snacks and drinks! We don't want to run out of food...we know how hungry cave divers can get.

Also we welcome all the musicians out there to bring your instruments...we'll have a cd player for the day but it would be great to do some songs around the campfire in the evening.

Ginnie has agreed to special discounts on admission (including camping for Friday and Saturday nights!) for members! A big thanks to them, we hope to have a great turnout!

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Ginnie is also offering free admission for active NACD instructors as a big thank you for using their facility to teach! So come on down and enjoy a non-teaching dive!

Check us out on Facebook: Go to the NACD group and click on the Halloween Social link on the right! See who else is going and invite your friends!

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Ginnie is also offering free admission for active NACD instructors as a big thank you for using their facility to teach! So come on down and enjoy a non-teaching dive!

Don't all active instructors get into Ginnie free *all* the time?

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Don't all active instructors get into Ginnie free *all* the time?

Maybe all active cave instructors, but definitely not all instructors.

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Don't all active instructors get into Ginnie free *all* the time?

When they are with students...or pretending they are with students...

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Halloween is TOMORROW!!!!

Please stop by Ginnie anytime tomorrow for the NACD Halloween Social. We went food shopping last night so we've got burgers and hot dogs on the menu...chips, smores, candy, soda, and don't forget the keg of Heineken donated by Santi! Feel free to bring your own food and drink as well, but no glass bottles per Ginnie rules. Bring music too if you have it.

A guideline will be run through the Eye and the Ear with cookies on them... you may use these lines in place of your own guideline if you wish, but please verify for yourself that there are no line traps, etc.

NACD Halloween Party 2008
Trick or Treat Dive
Last night a phantom diver made his way through the Devil's Cave system and put little orange cookies everywhere. The cookies are numbered and say NACD Halloween on them. The diver also left some prizes on the surface. The prizes are numbered to match the cookies.

Rules

1. Dive within your training! We have a map set up near Little Devils with cookie locations on it. There will be cookies within reach of divers level cavern through full cave. Please dive within your level of training.

2. As you do your dive please refrain from taking any cookies until you have begun your exit. This way you will be taking a cookie *from* farther into the cave, enabling divers at lower levels of training a chance to get cookies closer to the exit.

3. One cookie per diver!

4. When you have completed your dive, see Bob Schulte or Elisha Gibson. Turn in your cookie. They will mark the cookie as "found" on the map and give you your prize.

5. To participate you must be out of the water by 11 pm. Any unclaimed cookies will no longer be worthy of a prize.

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The Halloween Social was a great success. Good food, good prizes, and good spirits were in great abundance at Ginnie Springs.

Costume Contest Results:
Best Overall: Bob & Amy Ferguson (Doing It Rotund)
Prize: Halcyon Knife donated by Extreme Exposure
Scariest: Larry Green (Grim Reaper)
Prize: Golem Gear Gaiters donated by Golem Gear
Most Original: Bob & Amy Ferguson (Doing It Rotund)
Prize: NACD Umbrella donated by NACD

Raffle Winner:
Red Sullivan
Prize: Birds Underwater Manatee Tour

Thanks especially to Santi and Golem Gear for bringing out their products for divers to test-drive. Thanks to Santi and the NACD for providing the refreshments. Thanks to Ginnie Springs Outdoors for providing the pavillion and great atmosphere. Thanks to Scott Butsch, Corby Anderson, Mike DeWein, Matt DeWein, and Glen "Hamhock" Moody for the fantastic live music. Thanks to Larry Green and Jeff Hancock for bringing the firewood for the bonfire. Thanks to Jeff Marchand for helping with the set-up and take down of decorations. Thanks to Extreme Exposure, Golem Gear, Cave Excursions East, Birds Underwater, NACD and Ginnie Springs for the great prize donations.

Finally, Thanks to everyone who got dressed up, participated in the Trick-or-treat dive, or just stopped by to have a burger and talk fireside with their friends. It wouldn't have been a social without you!