Hey Jeano, we miss you!! Where is down here??
The flow was up IMO. Louis (loudafish) and I tried something new and went in from the eye. They have a temporary permenant line placed, but I ran a line from the tree just outside the reaper sign at the eye through to the gold line in the ear just in case. Dang it's tight going into the eye, especially with stage bottles! The worst/funniest part was reeling in the line on the way out, Oh Boy!?
We got as far as the 800 foot arrow in what I think was the end of the mud flats ?? It was a very nice dive, but I don't ever remember passing sooo many teams coming in and out. The high flow made for a tough swim in, but it also made for a very relaxing drift out. There is so much to explore in that cave, you could spend an entire dive just checking out the area prior to the lips!
After a long surface interval we went over to the Ballroom and brought Kathy, Sadie199, and Eric down with us. Kathy finally made it to the grate - Now she thinks she may like cave diving (god help me), and Sadie got a brief tour of the famous ballroom (sorry about the short bottom time), complete with a jaunt through that little "J" shaped tunnel.
The one nice surprise of the day was that they paved the dirt road leading up to the main office, so my truck doesn't have that nice white limestone sheen, and they are now really enforcing the rules of the park so we didn't have to dodge ATV's and such.