Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb.
Today’s 90-Second Escape: Going Down Under (at Fantasy Lake Scuba Park).
Would you believe there were people in North Carolina who were actually outside and cold this weekend?
Their secret? They spent part of the weekend in 35 feet of water at the Fantasy Lake Scuba Park in Rolesville. Every summer weekend you’ll find dozens of divers — from search & rescue dive teams, to students getting their open water certification, to divers brushing up on their skills — along the south and east shores of Fantasy Lake, an abandoned quarry that reaches a maximum depth of about 80 feet.
Most divers spend their time in 35 to 45 feet of water, exploring a variety of sunken artifacts, from a VW Fox, to an old CAT bus you can swim through, to Elvis’s grave (in an old freezer). Wet suits are required, for even if it’s 105 in the shade, you don’t dive far at Fantasy Lake before hitting 70-degree water.
Tag along for a 90-second dive with a group getting certified by Gypsy Divers in Raleigh. .
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