River City Grotto History

During caving trips in the summer and fall of 2012 with the Florida Speleological Society, David Obi Jr. and Katie Barnard discussed how much they would like to participate in the monthly grotto meetings but were unable to make the meetings due to challenges travelling to the meetings from Jacksonville on a weekday.  Other people echoed the same issue during a number of conversations and during the TAG Cave In of 2012, David and Katie decided to see if there would be enough people in Jacksonville who would be interested in forming a local Grotto. 

Response from caving friends and existing NSS members was extremely positive, so an initial meeting was called on October 18th, 2012 to discuss the process of forming a Grotto and to take the decision on whether or not to proceed, to which the answer was an overwhelming “yes”.  Since this date the core group of dedicated enthusiasts have been working hard to complete all the start-up activities. We are very grateful to all those involved in setting up the Grotto, including our charter members are Li Loriz, Tony Flaris, Kristoffer Francisco, David Obi Jr. and Katie Barnard.

River City Grotto held its first Grotto meeting will be held on January 23rd 2013.

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