History

Book Review

The Log of the Wookey Hole Exploration Expedition

Bill Mixon

The Log of the Wookey Hole Exploration Expedition, 1935. Graham Balcombe and Penelope Powell.  Cave Diving Group, Great Britain; reprint 2009. ISBN 978-0-901031-06-8. 6 by 9 inches, xviii+235+xix pages, hardbound. £25 plus postage (about $70 total) from The UK Cave Diving Group, or $39 plus postage at Lulu. Read more »

The Secret to Upstream Cow

Skiles

Early Exploration and Protection Efforts

By Wes Skiles,photos by Wes and Jim Kozmik

The story of how Cow Springs slowly gave up her secrets remains close to my heart and memory. My love for springs was obvious when I was ten, and by age 15, I was frequenting them in my 1969 Plymouth Valiant. By age 16, I was diving at Peacock, Telford, Running Spring, Suwannee Blue, Sandbag (Bathtub), Devil’s Eye and Ginnie Springs. Running Spring became exploration base camp for me and fellow cave lovers Bob and David Dillenger from Jacksonville, Florida. Read more »

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