MinnieWaffles
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No way would I actually want to swim in the Seven Seas Lagoon, the water looks filthy. I'm fine with using the nice swimming pool(s) at my resort 
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Can you swim on the beaches of the Seven Seas Lagoon?
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LaughingGravy
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Disney had the Seven Seas Lagoon as more of a recreation area for years and could have maintained it, but they chose not to and now it is a wildlife preserve with limited boating/fishing with a monorail going around.
Just a few factual items
1) Seven Seas Lagoon is spring fed it's not a swamp
2) alligators lived on the property long before any of us were born
3) alligators are migratory, so if you somehow were able to remove every one of them today. Within a very short time they would be back.
They are not in our playground, we are in thier home.
1) Seven Seas Lagoon is spring fed it's not a swamp
2) alligators lived on the property long before any of us were born
3) alligators are migratory, so if you somehow were able to remove every one of them today. Within a very short time they would be back.
They are not in our playground, we are in thier home.
I will add to this. Yeah, I think humans trump gators, 100 times fold. If Disney could have kept the lagoon free of gators then I think they should have. A fence around the lagoon would have done that. We cannot climb into the Magic Kingdom because of fences, so why not do the same with gators and the lagoon. And if one gets in, you deal with it whichever way that is. It is man made.
polynesiangirl
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This just reminded me that I swam in the Seven Seas Lagoon, in what had to have been one of the last years it was allowed. It was not an especially magical memory, I remember it being kinda gross (though in fairness even now as an adult I don't really love lake swimming in general.)
I guess what I'm trying to say is that not being able to swim in it now hasn't been a tremendous personal loss for me, hahaha. And I, too, thought it was the amoebas that put an end to the swimming in there, not the gators. (Or at least in addition to the gators.)
I guess what I'm trying to say is that not being able to swim in it now hasn't been a tremendous personal loss for me, hahaha.
And I, too, thought it was the amoebas that put an end to the swimming in there, not the gators. (Or at least in addition to the gators.)
LittleBuford
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Cosmic Commando
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xdan0920
Think for yourselfer
Ah. The vacation kingdom.Once Upon a Time the Poly beach, before they sold it off for that trashy trailer park on poles, served as, well, a beach. For decades you could swim here. There was even a wave machine but that was killed off almost immediately.
Lensman
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What are you doing in my resort pool?!?!
Oh wait, I see. Sorry, I misread that at first. Carry on.
To be fair, all of us can climb that fence too. But if there is barbed wire on the fence (like around the back of the Magic Kingdom for instance) no alligator, even an acrobatic gator, can climb over it. It can be done, it isn't like it is impossible to keep gators out.
....................and then there are those so concerned about the rights of an alligator that they would be fine with it biting and possibly ripping off limbs of guests that paid hundreds of dollars to vacation.............until it happens to them. Honestly, you wouldn't want to vacation in a land where they are ignorant of wild animals lurking around.
LittleBuford
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I'd rather not have the area around the lagoon looking like a prison compound. There's a simple solution to this, which is to stay out of the lake and exercise caution when near it, as one should do around any body of water in Florida. You're making it seem as if hundreds of guests a year are having their limbs ripped off by predatory alligators, when in fact there's only ever been one (admittedly tragic) incident in the history of the Seven Seas Lagoon.
It doesn't have to look like a prison. Do you see gates around the Magic Kingdom? They can do it in a way where the fences are in the middle of the trees in the distance. Either way, it isn't as if gators are ripping people's limbs off everyday in WDW, but why risk it? If a gator is ever spotted on the property you get rid of it. You never heard of the kid in 1986 at Fort Wilderness that was nearly dragged into the water by a gator only to have his two siblings rescue him? It can be done to keep them out.
LittleBuford
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It's a large body of water in Central Florida; keeping alligators out is simply impossible. As long as people are careful, guests and wildlife can coexist with minimal trouble. You're making a mountain out of a molehill (or, more fittingly perhaps, a lake out of a puddle).
To each their own. Disney could find ways to avoid the risk altogether. People pay a lot of money to stay there, give them a beach experience too. You wouldn't want an alligator as a pet, you know?
lazyboy97o
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Gators routinely get through all sorts of fencing, even barbed wire.
LittleBuford
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If someone wants a beach experience in Florida, they can go to an actual beach (where, incidentally, they'll face the threat of sharks), or to the amazing fake version offered at Typhoon Lagoon. I seriously doubt anyone is booking their Disney holiday with the expectation of being able to frolic in the waters of the Seven Seas Lagoon.
It is just another thing to add, that is all.
As I said before, then you deal with them when they do this instead of tip toeing around because you are afraid someone is going to go "Jane Fonda" on you
lazyboy97o
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Large gators are already removed when found.
You know how to stay on Disney property with your family for cheap I assume?
Minnie Mum
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Dude. Give it up. Thinking that you could effectively fence in all of the lagoon is laughable, not to mention financially unrealistic. Fences don't work well against Gators. Those fences around MK? Don't work against Gators. There are always Gators in the water in Frontierland. The best they can do is remove the biggest ones, which they also do in the lagoon. But let's suppose they COULD keep gators out of the lagoon. (and the fact that it is man made is completely irrelevant, by the way) You still couldn't safely swim there. I wasn't kidding when I said swimming was banned because if the brain eating amoebas. Don't believe me? Look it up.