Panhandle March 3,4,5

[frankster1138]

Hello. It is time to get the gear wet again so 3 or 4 of us are planning a weekend on the panhandle March 3, 4, 5 and were wondering if anyone may know of any boats/operators going out. I am going to call a few operators down there in the next week. Please let me know if you hear of anything. I would love to do something more than springs.

Also, does anyone know if Santa Rosa Island off Pensacola is open to the public again?

Thanks in advance.

Frank

 

[mike_s]

Santa Rosa Island (the state park) is open again to the public, however, only to walking traffic. you have to park at the gate and walk along the "remains" of the old road into the area. There was an article in the P'Cola News Journal about two weeks ago about this issue. It's also open to people via boat.


As for charters going out, you might have a hard time getting a hold of dive charters in Panama City. Hydrospace has gone out of business and sold their boats to PC Dive Center and someone told me that PC Dive Center "closed for February". So the bigger operators will be hard to reach. Try them anyway, I might be wrong on them being closed.