| Peacock Springs CSO Committee Update March 2005 |
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| The March meeting will be Sat. Mar. 12th, noon at Orange Grove. |
We will be holding a lunch at this time also so everyone can meet the resident volunteers at PSSP, Mike and Beverly Heathcott. If you would like to bring a covered dish that would be great. |
We've had more kiosks for the interpretive trail sponsored. John P. Jones Scuba has chosen the Pothole kiosk. Richard A. Hardison D.D.S. has chosen the Crossover Tunnel from the Peanut line to Olsen kiosk. The NACD has chosen the kiosk at the Peanut Restriction and Captain Tom McMillan is sponsoring a kiosk but has not chosen a location yet. The CDS section of the NSS-CDS will sponsor a map of the cave system kiosk to be placed at Orange Grove and the PSSP CSO Committee voted at the February meeting to sponsor a sign for Mike Poucher for all the help he has provided us by donating use of the PSSP cave system map, conducting the radio locates for kiosk placement for our Interpretive Trail and much more. Mike has asked us to sponsor the kiosk in memory of Dennis Holden, who first surveyed the Peacock system. |
| Park Manager Tom Brown has taken the layout for the Peacock One kiosk sponsored by Dive Rite to the manufacturer and delivery is expected in a few weeks. Anyone who has sponsored a kiosk and would like to pay for them can mail a check payable to: "FRIENDS" and mail it to PSSP CSO 18081 185th Road Live Oak, Florida 32060 |
| We want to thank Sandra Poucher for all the work she has put into developing the layout for the first kiosk. We are gathering information for more kiosks now. We are also offering for sponsorship plant ID mini-kiosks. These will be placed along the trail naming and giving information of plants, trees and various other sights found along the trail. We want to make the trail educational for school children when them come to walk the trail. The fee for sponsoring one of the mini-kiosk will be $50. We will bring a park biologist to the park to help us identify the trees and plants. We will then provide a map with the locations of sites for the plant ID's marked. We will order the proper signs and when the sign is made your name will be placed right in the embedded fiberglass sign which is guaranteed for life. We have two mini-plant ID kiosks sponsored already. If you are interested please contact a CSO member and we will be happy to help you or email billjan@alltel.net |
We have added names to the CSO sponsor sign in the park. A resident volunteer from ISSP made all the new name plates for us and Mike and Beverly have painted them and installed them. Mike has also built 20 one sided tank benches for PSSP. We will be placing them in the park next week by the inmate work crew. They will install the benches and car stops in the parking lots. Mike and Beverly also converted one of the benches on the porch at P1 into a tank bench; everyone is very pleased with it. We have ordered twenty new picnic tables for the park, they will be fastened in the ground to prevent people moving them and from getting washed away during a flood. Captain Tom McMillan has built and donated a double sided tank bench to the park which Mike and Beverly placed between parking spots at Peacock One. |
We also voted to have the PSSP CSO Committee sponsor a kiosk for ISSPs interpretive trail. Our kiosk will be located at the head spring of Ichetucknee Springs State Park. |
Our most recent cave adoptions have been from Leslie and Thomas Evens, 50' of tunnel below the Olsen Window, Mark Swicord 50' of tunnel in lower Orange Grove, Richard Hicks and Susan Woodall 50' of the Time Tunnel in the Waterhole Tunnel, Michael and Karen McDonald 50' of Olsen Tunnel to the Peanut Junction, Bill Oigarden first 200' upstream from Olsen to Challenge Sink and Eugene H. Hellwig 1000' to 1050' Orange to Challenge Tunnel and first 50' of the Distance Tunnel. |
If you would like to adopt-a-cave section email Cynthia Penney at silver5@alltel.net |
We also want to thank Bill Oigarden for the fantastic job he did in the last publication of the Underwater Spelology for all the articles concerning Peacock Springs. We have been getting positive emails from all over the states since the publication came out. |
We also want to thank everyone who has purchased a sweatshirt or T-shirt from us, have adopted-a-cave section or sponsored a kiosk. All the money raised goes towards park improvements and is greatly appreciated. |
I, Janet, would like to thank Cynthia Penney for helping me pick the litter up along the Luraville Road this week. It was starting to look pretty grim along the road. One more day of cleaning we should have the task completed. I could not have done it without her. |