A Great Week at The Millpond

[Cave Diver]

Yes, the HD Helmet cam would've been great just then.

The gator seemed less than thrilled at my dropping in, turned and headed away while I flutter kicked my fin-less converse hi tops in it's general direction and going nowhere under double 112's till the two inflators kicked on in my attempt to polaris out of there...

I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time, but that sure makes for a great visual!

 

[Zinc]

I'm not sure I'd admit to that in public :cool2:

If you go into the cave from the spring run and follow the line, you will come to a window that you can exit to get to the second pool. You'll know if you miss the exit as about 10 more feet in you reach a sharp left turn and are staring at the restriction. See attached photo, sorry but it's the best I found from my last trip, for the BM entrance. This entrance almost directly under the rope swing. It doesn't look like much but if you run a line to the back of it it drops into the cave just past the restriction.

I'd agree, for the same reasons, except I don't concern myself much w/ what the public thinks. I admit this in public :mooner:

We entered the water from the far side of the picture above and spent much time in that large hole in the middle first, followed by the hole right of the rope swing (my perspective), went down 46 foot into that siphon before calling that **** (it was kinda cool lookin' cracks and fissures).

The hole you mention, the one that "doesn't look like much" is the one I skipped over... (yes the back mount one)

Then I crawled over into the hole w/ the gator, and well... I started thinking about the canoe ride back and its $20 deposit after that

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

I miss Bozell, I will have to dive it again soon :/

 

[Dive-aholic]

Be prepared to walk up the spring run...

 

[Kevin Carlisle]

I miss Bozell, I will have to dive it again soon :/

Me too!!

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Be prepared to walk up the spring run...

No problem, its a short spring run

 

[Dive-aholic]

No problem, its a short spring run

Not when you're pulling a boat full of dive gear that's dragging along the bottom!!

 

[gelembung]

Spent most of last week in Marianna. The weather was perfect. Got to dive with old friends and meet some new ones as well.

Visibility in JB and Twin Cave was excellent, Hole in the Wall.....not so much.

Diving highlights were doing the circuit in Twin and a double stage swim dive back to the Trashroom in JB.

A very amusing day was spent trying to dive Bozell which is a good paddle upstream from Florida Caverns State Park. After a close encounter with a snake Zinc headed off into the obvious entrance. After 30 feet or so the cave took a hard left and became No Go for doubles. We figured it was an evil ploy of Edds to sell another Nomad Despite trying a couple more silty,syphony holes we never did find the backmount entrance.
Finally Zinc decided to try another stagnant looking pool just over a small hill. So he took his fins off,walked over there and hopped in. Dropped down to 5 feet ,looked under a log and found himself face to face with a gator Apparently it's difficult to swim backwards with no fins and double 104s
Lots of effort,little diving and a fun adventure.

Photos are the dock at Twin and the road to Bozell.





wow...... Great experience....!!!!!!!

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Not when you're pulling a boat full of dive gear that's dragging along the bottom!!

It could always be a 4 mile spring run with about 50 portages involved! Ugh.

 

[Dive-aholic]

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how to do that one.