Cora and i had a great time in High Springs last week. We've found that our love for smaller caves while diving is hard to resist...so we just jumped full force.
Last week we dove Devils Cave (Ginnie) quite a bit and got back to the worm tunnel and spent some time in the catacombs perfecting our side mounting procedures and gear rigging. We've moved to using helmets for our backup /primary lights and keep taking knives to the Nomads and customizing them. We ended the trip by taking a class from Jill Heinerth on side mounted caves and techniques for their safe(r) exploration. The class culminated with a canoe trip and dive at Rock Bluff. It's considered a moderately hard cave to dive due to the initial restriction but Cora and I were able to work on it and pretty quickly push right through. The cave beyond was beautiful, however we had zero vis on the exit due to percolation...not many dive this system. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures or video this trip, the caves were full value and there was no way i wanted to have more task loading. Planning on possibly getting some video for Rock Bluff next trip. Here's a video of Agnus doing the Rock Bluff entry in high flow. It was a total blast! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIlreHwSm1g We took our first load to store in Alachua, can't wait to move in the spring!
