Gerardo's Guidebook

Awesome place to get your fills and anything you need for cave diving. One of the kind unique dive center in the world.

North Florida Cave Training has been committed to providing every customer with the finest in dive education, equipment, and dive travel; all with unequaled personal service.

“Great Care and Attention” I can’t say enough about the great care and attention everyone in the office has shown us. It’s reassuring to have a team that provides such great care! Thanks to all for the great attention.

Small family owned and operated

Perhaps the Ichetucknee's greatest historical treasure is the Mission de San Martin de Timucua. This Spanish and Native American village was one of the major interior missions serving the important Spanish settlement of St. Augustine. The mission, built in 1608, flourished through most of that century. The river and springs were used consistently by even earlier cultures of Native Americans, dating back thousands of years. During the 1800s, early travelers on the historic Bellamy Road often stopped at Ichetucknee Springs to quench their thirst. Later that century, a gristmill and general store were located at Mill Pond Spring. With high quantities of limestone at or just below the ground surface, the area became early headquarters for North Florida's phosphate industry in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Small surface mines are still visible throughout the park. Continuing through the 1940s, cypress and longleaf pine forests were harvested by the local timber and naval store industries. Ichetucknee Springs State Park was purchased by the state of Florida in 1970 from the Loncala Corporation to preserve one of the state's outstanding natural wonders. In 1972, the U.S. Department of the Interior declared the Ichetucknee Spring a National Natural Landmark.