{"id":1313,"date":"2010-08-16T13:39:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesg.net\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2011-01-19T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T22:14:54","slug":"convict-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Convict Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After boating up river looking for potential leads, Jeff and I ran across the Suwannee River Rendezvous Resort &amp; Campground, where there was a spring run.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t make the connection that this was Convict Springs, so we went to the office and asked the manager if we could dive here, only realizing what cave it was when we saw the map on the wall.\u00a0 This is a nice place to camp, it has hot showers and a place to eat all on site.\u00a0 Upstream from here is a great canoe spot as well!<\/p>\n<p>We got in the water at about 10pm, and had to be out by 11pm.\u00a0 Because of this, we limited dive time to 45 minutes.\u00a0 Convict is a beautiful system, with rocks that look like egg shells, formed around something (possibly clay) that has been washed away.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a tree root growing dead center of one of the cave&#8217;s large rooms.\u00a0 The system is incredibly fragile, and very silty.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve not been in many silt outs, wait to go here until you gain experience in them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesg.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/convict.png\" rel=\"lightbox[1313]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1316\" title=\"Dive Profile\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesg.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/convict-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After boating up river looking for potential leads, Jeff and I ran across the Suwannee River Rendezvous Resort &amp; Campground, where there was a spring run.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t make the connection that this was Convict Springs, so we went to the office and asked the manager if we could dive here, only realizing what cave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,51,222,223],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dive-log","tag-cave-diving","tag-florida-springs","tag-sidemount","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}