So what's the viz like at Lafayette Blue? A few members on here just blew $15 trying to dive Emerald just to find out conditions are crap. I've been to Troy just to find out it's tannic as well, very few people post conditions reports online for that site.Originally Posted by KarsticGator
my guess would be crappy.
You should go spend $15 and find out for me
not bloody likely. i'd get in at one of bill's sinks for free.You should go spend $15 and find out for me
Troy Springs = Ask the ranger to let you take a look at the basin before paying. I've done it before, and they've never had a problem.
As for Emerald or Lafayette? I haven't dove either cave, but I'm sure you could call CE for Lafayette conditions, or a T-Town dive shop for Emerald (or possibly EE).
That's just what I would do. But I normally make calls and do recon before every dive trip, regardless if that's to Peacock or to the Mill Pond.
Surely the cost of the employees and recent road improvements far exceeds whatever the park collects in fees, even with this $15 per dive increase.
The state is broke and so are the taxpayers.
That said: the fee increase is not in the best interests of the park system, nor the local economy.
I hope they drop it for the sake of the locals.
Last edited by Puttzer; 06-28-2010 at 03:07 PM. Reason: spelling
Let us know how that works out for you...
Brian
Has it not worked for you in the past?Let us know how that works out for you...
Brian
There is not a tech oriented dive shop in Tallahassee. The closest is Wakulla Diving Center. The best bet for conditions reports are the local divers, or if it has rained for 3 or more days straight, the vis will be going down the drain.
There is a glorified holding pond that is referred to as Munson Slough that basically catches all the rain runoff from SW Tallahassee, including the FSU campus and directs it towards the Leon Sinks system. There is also a swamp along a power line ROW that drains directly into Sullivan sink which is at the north end of the system.
I have seen the entire system blown out for a year.
"Have you ever noticed
When you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon
That'll come shiat on your hood?" John Prine 4-7-2020
"Into the blue again; in the silent water
Under the rocks, and stones; there is water underground" Talking Heads
This is what is a pain. Your paying for access through the parks to the water. Just like at ginnie. What bugs me is they are not chargeing to access the water through the parks for shore dives through the parks located on the coast, both east and west. So they are basicly takeing the cave diving community to the cleaners. Cave dive are basicly shore dives. If you go to one of the parks on either coast and decide to dive they don't charge a fee to dive. Then why charge us? You would think that if your charging for one the other would also apply. Or is it that they have to maintaine the caves." NOT "
When I have to start paying per day is when I start diving other sites. Times like this are when I'm happy I side mount.
Now if these meat heads had any brains they would do away with the season pass and make the price about $5 per day and the would increase revenues and no one would b*tch.
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