Florida Caverns State Park

She was good, knew her science, and respected the water.

When she called three days ago, her request sounded straightforward: routine passage documentation in a newly accessible system adjacent to Florida Caverns State Park.

She needed a diver with survey experience.

But her voice had a tightness to it, a strain underneath the professional phrasing.

Our advantage is really what is authentically ours.

So our springs and rivers for Mariana and Jackson County, we have the Florida Cavern State Park, our outdoor recreation, hunting and fishing.

Our cultural heritage agritourism is a huge one for us with local farms and farm-to-table markets.

And really just being authentic with our small towns, our small businesses, and making sure that people really get to experience what it means to be out of the city.

be as left in pristine condition.

But ultimately with tubers, we don't focus necessarily on drawing in someone only for tubing because typically tubers are ones where they're drinking when they're going down the water, they're not as worried about their cancer, or they have an accident and something falls off the tube and There's pretty limited ability to get it when you're not in really shallow waters there.

So additionally, with the Florida Cavern State Park, that is one of Florida's natural wonders.

And it brings in on average anywhere to 100, 130,000 people per year.