Jennings Spring

[scooby dooby]

Hi all! I am a new diver in the Tallahassee area. I have been looking for some local OW sites and someone told me about Jennings Spring. Has anyone here been there? Is it worth the trip?

 

[bamamedic]

I think Ginnie Springs (High Springs, FL) used to be called Jenny Springs, before it became the park that it is now (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong - I usually am!)

 

[Dive-aholic]

Many, if not all, of the springs in the panhandle, and maybe in Florida have more than one name. The name is dependent on who you are talking to. Even the popular sites in Merritt's Mill Pond that are frequented by divers on a regular basis have different names given to them by the locals. So the spring the person who told you about Jennings may go by a different name with divers. What other information do you have about it? That would be more helpful than just the name. Also, the springs in the Tallahassee area are all blown out right now. That means, zero to nothing visibility. Unfortunately, the springs in that area are easily affected by rain, and we've had a lot of rain recently. They are not divable more than they are divable. We've seen a couple of 1-2 week windows of good conditions since the beginning of the summer. I think over all of 2009 we had about a month and a half of decent conditions spread over 3-4 different time periods. Your best bet is to head west about an hour to the Marianna area and dive Merritt's Mill Pond. It's shallow, but the visibility is almost always unlimited and there's lots to see. Once you build up your experience a little, take a cavern course. That will open up A LOT of dive sites for you all over the panhandle.