At blue springs.
The manatee are in, in force. 271 here this morning.
Phantom309 posted:
Back in the day, I used to scuba dive blue springs, had a real thriller down there one time (long story, glad we made it out) ....
Naw, I think that's the only two pics I took that day (don't seem to have any more in my archives).
The little lady in the second pic is my first wife, we had just been married a month or two, I was getting her into scuba..
The fellow is an old biker friend named Bobby.
He and I went down and entered on the wrong side (got to go to know these things) I was in front and just cruising on in
and swam right into the hydrant (flow coming out of the bowels). It hit me and tumbled me up and into the room in there.
When I finally got my stuff together I had my line wrapped all around me (the line is the line ya tie off as you enter a cave
and let out as you venture on in, so, ya can find your way back out etc, etc ...
And I couldn't find Bobby at all...... I started yelling for him through my regulator best I could, was a little concerned. Finally he showed up, the hydrant had hit him too, anyway we exited from the other side and higher. Everything worked out ...
Back in the day, all these springs were just swimming holes out in the woods, down two-rut dirt roads, no gov regulations etc ...
I think Alexander Springs was pretty well developed, but, 40-Phantom Sink (now 40-Phantom Grotto) Ginny Springs, Little River,
Peacock Slough (a beautiful dive), Devil's Eye and several others were all just old swimming holes out in the woods.
Today they got lots of guards and regs....
And, I guess that's a good thing, less people getting killed (Dumbo's like me and Bobby) Got to be "Cave Certified" today ....
That's the story and I'm stickin to it ! ! ! ! !
More pics from slab:
Couple more pics I thought I'd share. Took these with my Fuji so did not have them to upload from phone.
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