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You need to be at Harbor Hills on Lake Griien if you want to boat. 20 min from the villages

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Lake Griffin

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In regards to snakes and gators. We have been on Paradise Lake for 4 winters. We have seen thousands of birds and some of the biggest turtles I've ever seen but have not ever seen a snake or gator. Back home in Maine, I see a lot of garter snakes.
I think the first sign of a gator would be a sudden lack of birds.

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Carol, you would think birds would fly away if a gator was in the vicinity. That is not always the case. I guess the birds know they can fly away quickly if a gator approaches.

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Our backyard is facing a pond (there is a 3 ft retaining wall and picket fence at the top), and we love the fact that it is a changing landscape every day. Birds, ducks, cranes, turtles and we used to have a gator that we nicknamed RJ (if male) or Ali (if female, we never got close enough to find out).
I think he got a little too big and was removed (he was over 10 feet in length). However, he used to occasionally sun himself on the banks of the pond and birds would land on him and not be bothered. We did notice that when the ducks and cranes kept out of the water it was a sure sign that Mr/Ms Gator was around. We're sorry that RJ/Ali is gone, but I wouldn't want to live so close to the water if we didn't have the wall/fencing, and a nicely enclosed screened room.
Gators are part of our natural habitat here, and with a little common sense we can enjoy observing them and all live peacefully together. We love living on waterfront property!

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Travel, I do not have a wall. When I walk down to the water I am very vigilant and not just because of the gators. There are lots of snakes in my area. Hubs fished a young one out of the pool last week. I'm not sure how he got in the birdcage.

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In the pool..........oooooooooo

I just wanted to point out that we do have a lighthouse on Lake Sumter and so far I have not heard of a single boat that has run aground.


IN YOUR POOL...INSIDE of the bird cage..............OOOOOOOOooooooooSAM. Yucky.... creepy, crawly ........ sneaky slimey slithery snake?

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GG-he was little..only about 13-14" long. He was swimming frantically. Hubs saved him.
We do not mind snakes. Kook-a-raches bother me. I can't stand the site of one.

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:o YIKES!
Samhass - we are just about finished having a screened room constructed, which I hoped would keep out snakes and those reptilian sized bugs that Mr. Travel is commissioned to eliminate from my view!
I am hoping that my two cats (who are very good at keeping bugs away) will enjoy the screened room and protect their loving owner ~

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Do you have to pay the cats to keep the bugs away? ;D

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And how about Mosquito's........when golfing at sunset you can run into a huge swarm of these pesky little things (near water) and it would not be fun to have to deal with this every day!

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I have not noticed mosquitoes at all ands that surprised me. TV must spray for them.

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No mosquito problems for us either.
And, yes, Samhass, we pay the cats the going wage PLUS we are very good tippers ;)

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I guess they get free or subsidized health care , as well?

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We live in a manufactured home on Lake Paradise and my wife and her friend kayak and paddleboat on the lake. Our property is waterfront. No dock but there are docks all around us. Web also fish from our property.