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Originally Posted by ssmith
Us Northerners love to think of lake activities and dream about a lake in Florida with all the warm weather BUT REMEMBER YOU CAN NOT SWIM IN LAKES IN FLORIDA!!! any bit of water could be the stomping grounds of a gators!!!! Just felt I needed to say it.
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People swim with gators all the time and there are very few incidents. Yes, a boy lost his arm recently, but that was a very, very rare event. Gators generally have no interest in some as big as a fully grown human. Gators are fairly docile and non aggressive. They eat something like once or twice a month. Still, I wouldn't do it. I'm a northerner and gators scare me. But, I've worked at golf courses where there were gators and they never bothered anyone. Poisonous snakes have always been more of a concern for me.
Like someone said many of the beaches on the lakes here are "netted" to prevent gators from getting into those areas.
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