See post #52Originally Posted by Puttzer
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Wow that is cool you won't have to use the cart at Jug!
Just pull and glide down the trail to the spring!
Sweet sounds like fun!
Sorry if this comment is taken to serious!
JCG
Actually, that account is very flawed. He was talking about the 1998 flood. I flew over the whole cave area then. The water at Madison was almost up to the highway. You could only see the roof of the compressor shed (gone now). The river was out of its banks in Branford, and into the Branford Dive Center. Both the Ginnie, and Devil's Eye parking lots were under water. The Itchetucknee was backed up all the way to the Jug, and the head spring, but not over the current trail. I suspect the area that is now under a boardwalk was pretty wet, though. You could still see clear water at the Jug, and head spring. FWIW, you could swim from the head spring to Jug, but there weren't any fences back then.
Going to Jug today... will report back... it was gorgeous last week.
Speaking of siphons
Speaking of siphons... this is what Rose and Duckweed Sink looked like last summer in the flooding that followed the tropical storm... We're not going to experience anything like that this time around, but it is interesting none the less.
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O.M.G.! Great picture, thanks.
2/27 Peacock 1 Report
Pothole line: Milky with some colder, dilute tannic water at bottom of well. Clearer at top of cave passage. Nicholson is in most places clearer than Pothole line, but still places with stratified cooler, slightly tannic water at bottom of passage with warmer clearer at top. Places where depth greater than about 62' were more tannic/worse vis than slightly shallower. 40' vis on mainline
Peanut line: Milky cavern, tannic water pooling below start of Peanut Tunnel. Clears up once in Peanut Tunnel. 60' vis. Crossover Tunnel clearer, esp in shallower parts. Milkyness returns on Pothole line downstream of Olsen. Olsen and first 100' of upstream Olsen are clear.
Basin: Rather clear, duckweed, still springing from P2 to P3.
Thanks for the report Mer, but the river has gone up a foot since yesterday, and I suspect you may have gotten the last good dive in there. The Withlacoochee, and Suwanee are both predicted to continue to rise, so Peacock will go under soon, if not already.
The Santa Fe is rising fast as well, but down near the Suwanee. It is only rising slowly at Ft White, so at worst, the run at Devil's Eye will be tannic. I should put in a disclaimer... that is, unless we get even more rain.
I just find it really interesting to watch the dynamic hydrology when things are flooding/clearing. It's fun trying to notice patterns between different flood events.
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