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- notevenExplorer III
Peg Leg wrote:
We spent two months at Webster Travel Park, in Webster, FL. They have a wall around the park. I didn't see any critters other than 3 ducks and some small dogs that were walking people around on leashes.
There was one large plastic penquin sitting in a chair waving as we entered.
Oh and some weird people flying flags with red maple leafs on them, don't know what that was all about.
Yes you do Peg Leg because you said "leafs" which is the correct Canadian plural, eh? - notevenExplorer IIIUm is this like looking for a Canada prairie&parkland park without mossskeeters?
- Sea_DogExplorerWe stay on Lake Okeechobee, plenty of Gators.
They are much like a cop, don't bother them,
they will not bother you! - Dog_FolksExplorerOne rule: If the body of water is bigger than a mud puddle: There is a gator in it.
- GoPackGoExplorerI suspect they have signs out front warning alligators not to enter.
- CKNSLSExplorer
Peg Leg wrote:
We spent two months at Webster Travel Park, in Webster, FL. They have a wall around the park. I didn't see any critters other than 3 ducks and some small dogs that were walking people around on leashes.
There was one large plastic penquin sitting in a chair waving as we entered.
Oh and some weird people flying flags with red maple leafs on them, don't know what that was all about.
How do they let people in to their facility? Can gators walk in from there? Don't laugh. Because that is what they do! - Peg_LegExplorerWe spent two months at Webster Travel Park, in Webster, FL. They have a wall around the park. I didn't see any critters other than 3 ducks and some small dogs that were walking people around on leashes.
There was one large plastic penquin sitting in a chair waving as we entered.
Oh and some weird people flying flags with red maple leafs on them, don't know what that was all about. - GoPackGoExplorerAlligators have legs. They go for walks. I've seen them in the middle of city street intersections and in the middle of highways. Last year there was one hanging out at the front door of someone's house in the town next to mine. My local YMCA has pictures of one that was wandering around the parking lot hiding under the cars. There was even one INSIDE a school in Tampa last year - someone left a door open and he wandered in early in the morning before classes started. A few years ago there was video of one surfing in onto a beach at Canaveral National Seashore. Everyone had the same question - How did he get out in the ocean ? Made for one hilarious video, though.
I used to think they were just in rural areas but that is the farthest thing from the truth - they turn up just about everywhere.
To the OP - If you look at a map of central Florida you will see what the problem is - There are about a zillion lakes and ponds and retention ponds around here. And the gators don't just hang out at one lake - they travel.
When I moved down here I asked my new vet about letting my dog swim in the lakes and ponds. His reply - 'anywhere there's water, there will probably be an alligator around'. And he's right. - CKNSLSExplorerIn Florida alligators are like ants. They are everywhere. If your afraid of gators go to another state that doesn't have them.
- fla-gypsyExplorerAlligators may occur in any natural or manmade body of water in Florida and will travel some distance on land moving from one to another.
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