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trnfla
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Jan 01, 2014

Paynes Prairie State Park Perserve Florida Review

We visited Paynes Prairie State Preserve located between Gainesville and Ocala Florida, The park is right off I-75 making it a easy place to get to. Here is my write-up on our visit including lots...
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agesilaus
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Jan 01, 2014
If you swim in Florida fresh water then you are swimming with gators. Unless you are in a swimming pool. I will say that there are some places further south in Florida that I would not swim at: Myakka SP lake for one and the Corkscrew Swamp/Everglades for another. The gators at Shark Valley are dangerous and the ones in Myakka have lost all fear of men are are very numerous as well.

But other than those locations gator attacks are rarer than lightning striking someone.

BK

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