Orange Grove

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Coordinates	"N83°07'50.5"W 30°07'38.2"N 83°07'50.5"W
Region	US South
Access via	Shore
Depth range	45-175 ft

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Orange Grove is an offset sinkhole located within Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park, 16 miles southwest of Live Oak, Florida. It is a popular location for swimming, freediving, and cave diving.

When conditions are good, this can be a very rewarding site for open water divers. The sinkhole is large and the water is frequently crystal clear. Cave divers will find two entrances to the Peacock / Orange Grove cave system, the shallower of which has a brief cavern zone appropriate for cavern divers.

Details

Depth

Depth in the open water area is approximately 45 ft. The entrance to Upper Orange Grove is ~80ft. Lower orange grove entrance is around 100ft. Depths within the lower Orange Grove system reach 175ft.

Topography

The spring pool measures about 44 ft (13.4 m) wide and 80 ft long.

Scalloped limestone crops out around the spring. The spring is within a forested area, and private land to the north rises gently to 15 ft (4.6 m) above the water.

Conditions

Spring pool conditions vary widely. Sometimes the pool is covered with a layer of duckweed, sometimes duckweed covers only part of the surface and sometimes there's none at all. Sometimes the water is tannic down to the cavern entrance, sometimes crystal clear.

Conditions within the system are typically the same year round.

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