Paradise Springs

Paradise Springs is privately owned and operated.  It's a sinkhole with depths reaching 140 feet.  When you first arrive on site you see a set of steps carved into a sloping depression that ends at a wooden dock over looking a tiny hole not more than 12 to 15 feet in diameter.  The surrounding landscape has a variety of large tropical plants giving this site a small tropical "paradise" look and feel as the name implies.  The entrance is a little intimidating because it's hard to imagine that upon entering this seemingly small hole you will find a quite large and roomy cavern.  At about 20 feet in depth the site forks off into two major caverns.  One cavern goes to a depth of about 40-50 feet while the other, sloping down at a 90 degree angle, goes all the way to 140 feet.  Open water divers should stop at 99ft.  Visibility is usually very good as long as you don't have a lot of careless divers about.  If you look carefully on the walls of the cavern you can see ancient sand dollar imprints and other fossils.  Paradise Springs is a great dive but definitely for the advanced diver.