Saturday, June 26, 2010

Diving Ginnie Springs

PICT0045Diving the caverns at Ginnie was pretty cool. Something to check off that you’ve done, anyway. The main cavern was neat – you get to swim up to an iron grate that water is gushing out of. I don’t have a strobe for this cheapo camera yet so the light is from my dive light.

PICT0056 After Ginnie we went to the Devil Springs area we found this sign. Rick enjoyed the risk of death so much that he wanted to be included in the picture of the sign. In this area divers aren’t allowed to take dive lights unless they’re cave certified. That meant that we didn’t go very far into anything as the sunlight faded quickly. That suited us just fine though. Shawn was the only one who ever expressed interest in the possibility of suffocating in the dark. One of the most surprising things to us was the snake Pico found between caverns. Pico said he saw a snake and Rick and I thought that it was too cold and too crowded for a snake to be hanging around. But when it started slithering towards us we had to admit it was a snake.

After the dive a few of my friends met me to hang out. The first thing I told them about was the snake we saw in the spring while we were diving. Matt just stared at me and finally said that he couldn’t believe I just said that. Apparently he’d just spend the last two hours explaining to the two girls how there were no snakes in the springs and then I went and ruined it. What can I say? It’s a gift.

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