my planed trip to florida...look it over please

[firedogut]

About to move to katy from austin (in 2 weeks)

driving is not a problem. I can do between 6-10 hours if i have some one to talk to. . in my up comming trip to florida there will be 4 of us making the trip so we each only need to drive 4-5 hours.

Cave Diver send me a PM and we can talk later


Ok now i'm really unsure. Krisscuba said Ginnie is not even a half a tank. I been told that it is a full day of diving for someone who never been there.


I need to finish making my plans within the week. If you want to tell me places to go great. keep in mind i will be campling for two night so i need a place with sites. I also want places that i can spend a day diving at.

 

[metaldector]

January 1st, Flordia State Parks raised their dive prices to $10.30 from $5.30. But still a bargin in most cases. Annual pass is the best idea @$40 but that's a residence fee. Check out state park prices at http://www.floridastateparks.org.

 

[Cave Diver]

About to move to katy from austin (in 2 weeks)

driving is not a problem. I can do between 6-10 hours if i have some one to talk to. . in my up comming trip to florida there will be 4 of us making the trip so we each only need to drive 4-5 hours.

Cave Diver send me a PM and we can talk later


Ok now i'm really unsure. Krisscuba said Ginnie is not even a half a tank. I been told that it is a full day of diving for someone who never been there.


I need to finish making my plans within the week. If you want to tell me places to go great. keep in mind i will be campling for two night so i need a place with sites. I also want places that i can spend a day diving at.

Cool, let me know when you get there. I can't comment on Ginnie, because we dove the cave and I never checked out the open water site. But if I can burn a full tank in the mudhole we call a lake, I'm sure I could manage one in Ginnie, especially after payin $25 to get in.

Maybe I missed it, but I didnt see your qualifications posted anywhere. Are you strictly open water, or do you also have cavern cert? That could open up some more possibilities.

 

[Krisscuba]

I did not know what part of Texas you where coming from. At 900 miles accross, I regretted driving accross the state in a day.

At Ginnie

The open water site is a small basin with a fair sized cavern. Not much to see and it is usually overcrowded with students. The devils eye and devils ear are cave sites. It is also expensive, I have not been since I took a class there in 99, then I think it was $27.

Ginnie got its name from a black towns lady named Ginnie that did the towns laundry at the spring.

The Grotto is also boreing

Devils den is good to do once. The Devil's Den got its name from the steam that would raise up off the water out of the gorund in the winter.

 

[firedogut]

yeah i've drove across Texas via I-10 once......NEVER AGAIN. 14 hours of nothing. no stops, no food, no radio stations. it really sucked.

 

[Krisscuba]

The last time I drove accross Taxes, I had damaged and had the roof of the 24' moving truck blow off around LA, I was headed for AZ. 100 miles from the NM border the boat trailer I was towing with a boat blew a tire, no spare, I was riding the rim with sparks, and of course it started to snow.

I sent you some PM's If you have other email address's I can send spring photo's

 

[divelocker]

vortex is ok, but your only an hour away from panama city. a lot of good wreck diving and pretty beaches.

 

[Krisscuba]

I have attached a photo I took in 99 at Ginnie.

This is the whole basin, you can see the sides slopping in. At the right is the entrance to the cavern.

 

[Krisscuba]

You will find this cave warning at most caverns. I believe I took this one at Morrison.

The alligator sign is at St Andrews park, Panama City Beach jetties

 

[Krisscuba]

A few photos of Morrison. The entrance beach when the water level was low, a tree from under water and a couple of maps