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I tend to forget that after Labor Day, when things calm down at Vortex, great dives can happen.
We just wanted to give a couple dives in (anywhere!) so this morning we set out before dawn and got to the Springs by 8:00 or so. Sunny, breezy and one small group of rescue-course students in the water before we were... but that group were still on the surface as we descended.
I paused at 5 feet or so realizing something odd. I stared out there and had a good look -- I could see the entire basin from the top of the line that drops into the cavern. The whole darn thing. It was actually "gin clear." Today, at 55 feet menacing eels (of course not) and nosing around the cavern, I can't exaggerate that the water was just like air even looking up to the surface. It was kind of trippy, a lot giddy and so.much.fun.
This, I remembered, was why diving springs can be so incredible.
We knocked out two leisurely, fun dives before the "crowd" (ha! a dozen OW students constituted a "crowd" today) was suited up and heading to the basin.
Lovely. Really exactly what I needed this morning.
We just wanted to give a couple dives in (anywhere!) so this morning we set out before dawn and got to the Springs by 8:00 or so. Sunny, breezy and one small group of rescue-course students in the water before we were... but that group were still on the surface as we descended.
I paused at 5 feet or so realizing something odd. I stared out there and had a good look -- I could see the entire basin from the top of the line that drops into the cavern. The whole darn thing. It was actually "gin clear." Today, at 55 feet menacing eels (of course not) and nosing around the cavern, I can't exaggerate that the water was just like air even looking up to the surface. It was kind of trippy, a lot giddy and so.much.fun.
This, I remembered, was why diving springs can be so incredible.
We knocked out two leisurely, fun dives before the "crowd" (ha! a dozen OW students constituted a "crowd" today) was suited up and heading to the basin.
Lovely. Really exactly what I needed this morning.