two dives at Orange Grove (cave) with Madeline, from Scubaboard.

both dives went smoothly.  Orange Grove is part of the Peacock

system.

  everytime i go into a cave it looks slightly different.  sometimes

not so slightly.  different visibility level, different position in

the tunnel, different height off the floor, different nooks and

crannies...  it's like a new experience every dive.

  and coming out, it's like a totally different cave.  you could never

get bored diving a cave (well, i couldn't).

tunnel at Orange Grove cave.  in places, the ceiling is no

more than four or five feet from the floor, less in others.

the floor is particulalry silty, so it's a tricky cave for beginners.

picture by someone else

    there is a passage, best revealed on the way out.  as you come back,

the tunnel narrows and there are two man-size openings, sort of like

sockets in a skull.  the one to the right leads down, to the exit, and then

turns left and slightly upward.  there, tucked away in the wall, is a niche

that i could easily see holding a saint's image, flowers, and a candle

(if it weren't in a flooded, pitch-dark tunnel)

   it's one of those places that surprise you on every dive.