Babette,

Thank you for a well considered list of cautionarys.
I'd thought of the possibility for receiving a really bad headache
from a wind surfer (that of course is an understatement).  Hadn't
considered the grass/weed issue though.  You're right, there is a
healthy forest out there.  I had checked the park rules.  Have to make
it known that you are diving, seems they don't restrict, unless you
are short sighted and surprise them.  Then they surprise you.  And it
seems they object to you getting closer than 300 to the damn.  :-)

What to see?
Nostalgia perhaps, and fishes of course.
I remember it as a valley, roads and a few houses.
On old topographic maps you can find the roads and in person the
crumbled reminders lead into the water replete with rotted stumps from
road side trees (once upon a time).
I know they leveled the buildings, and if the shore is an indicator
the foundations are still there.  Besides, there is the most human
reason of all, because it is there  :-)

Thank you for your input, I will seriously have to consider how much I
will let curiosity rule the day.  Of course if I was a cat I'd died of
curiosity poisoning long ago.

~|>Ratfish <Ratfish45@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:<8gbn50dd9iug7evsf391ugqke2mbhe40ch@4ax.com>...
~|>
~|>> Anyone Dive in Marsh Creek State Park?
~|>> I seem to recall seeing  a subject line run through here once
about
~|>> diving in Marsh Creek State Park.
~|>> Anyone have this experience?
~|>> If so, how was  your experience?
~|>
~|>Hi there Ratfish :)  I can't say that I recall anyone posting about
~|>diving in Marsh Creek but I might have missed it. I do know that
you
~|>need to obtain special permission before diving there... IOW, you
~|>can't just show up with your gear and dive in. I have several
friends
~|>who are police / park rangers with the state (as Pops loves to
tease
~|>me about) and so I know that diving is permitting there but you
need
~|>to contact the park officials for written permission first. Diving
is
~|>also permitted with permission at French Creek, which is near
~|>Marsh...and at Nockamixon....and I think also at Locust Lakes but
I'm
~|>not sure about that one.
~|>
~|>Now... questions I have about diving these areas are two-fold. One
~|>question is just what will you see. The second question is how safe
is
~|>it. I used to own a windsurf board and I surfed Nockamixon. In the
~|>warmer summer months, there was always an algae bloom.  There was
also
~|>this long stem plant life that seemed like a minature version of
the
~|>kelp forests in Calif. This stuff grew from the bottom to the
surface
~|>and the area that I was in was from 5 to 50 ft deep. I don't think
I'd
~|>want to dive in that plant stuff. The safety issue comes to my mind
~|>because there aren't many divers going to these areas and so the
~|>boaters probably do not have a clue what to do if they see a dive
flag
~|>being towed by a diver under the surface. Yes, you as the diver
could
~|>probably hear a motor boat coming your way. But you won't hear a 25
ft
~|>sailboat or a windsurfer. If I were going to dive at these areas,
I'd
~|>probably want to dive far out of the way of the boaters. :)  Just
my
~|>opinion of course. If I can help answer any questions that you
might
~|>have re: the police regs for these areas, please let me know. The
head
~|>of French Creek is the best friend of my friend's hub...and so I
could
~|>have put in a 'good word' for you... however he is retiring the end
of
~|>this month. LOL  :)

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