Mansion Butler
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There would be if they could swim in the beaches. :lol:
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Swimming in Disney's lakes
- Thread starter stalkingmickey
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There would be if they could swim in the beaches. :lol:
Yes. I makes people assume they can use the beach like they would anywhere else.
Mansion Butler
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And the signs that say "no swimming" quickly deter that.
If I was a kid I would prefer the pool with the volcano and slide over a beach with nothing to do but lay out and swim. In my experience in traveling if there is a pool and a beach you will see more kids at the pool than the beach. especially if the pool is themed and has kids play areas.
Mansion Butler
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Whatever you call freshwater plant growth.
'Course, it aint the freshest water. Maybe you've just gotta be Floridian to get this stuff.
wdwmomof3
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The beach's are very pretty and I am just giving you a hard time, however, I would keep an eye out for the gators!! Nets or no nets, they are everywhere.
I lived in Jackson, MS when I was in high school and there were gators on the river there where I would water ski. They wouldn't bother anyone and they would mainly come out at night, but just knowing that they were there made it a little creepy at times. :lookaroun
I lived in Jackson, MS when I was in high school and there were gators on the river there where I would water ski. They wouldn't bother anyone and they would mainly come out at night, but just knowing that they were there made it a little creepy at times. :lookaroun
If I knew there were signs would I be asking if you can swim in the lakes? Maybe you could have put that in your first post instead of the smart comments you have made.
Other posters have said they swim in the lakes. Also the Poly use to have platforms out in the water for swimming to and diving off of. So at one point it was not just a themed beach, but a beach to swim off of. See this link with the swim platforms and people swimming in the lake
http://tikiman2001.homestead.com/files/pc08.jpg
aladdinjrstar
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You're not from Florida, are you. In Florida, where there's water, there are also these things:
:lol:
And at the Caribbean Beach, they have signs warning about these guys, too:
For theming and so you can sit on the beach. If you don't want to, don't go to the beach.
That gave me chills!
reptar77
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Yes it is a bummer that you cannot swim in the lake but the beach and chairs are a great place to rest when the parks are full. I like to build sand castles. It is funny how many kids will stop and look many have built them along with me. Last summer we had a sand castle contest (not official) at the beach club.
CleveRocks
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I am a beach person. My wife and I moved 500 miles from Ohio to now live at the beach year-round.
The Disney beaches are all about theming. They do a good job with what they have. It gives the impression of a beach, but certainly is nothing like a real beach. To me, the beach is the sound of the water lapping and/or crashing. It's the smell of salt air. It's the looking to the horizon and seeing nothing, yet imagining an entire world out there ....
So no, when I went to Caribbean Beach Resort I wasn't expecting any of those things. But they are pretty little beaches with hammocks and lounge chairs, and the food court even sells some of the kids meals in buckets that come with little shovels. It's a nice theme, but it's not the real thing, and that's fine.
Thank goodness Disney does theming rather than exact re-creations. THink about it ....
When I went to Port Orleans French Quarter, I wasn't expecting drunks and vomit in the alleys, I wasn't expecting live jazz, and I wasn't expecting guys on the balconies to throw beads at my wife and yell, "Show us your t**s!"
Maybe I just have low expectations .... :lol:
The Disney beaches are all about theming. They do a good job with what they have. It gives the impression of a beach, but certainly is nothing like a real beach. To me, the beach is the sound of the water lapping and/or crashing. It's the smell of salt air. It's the looking to the horizon and seeing nothing, yet imagining an entire world out there ....
So no, when I went to Caribbean Beach Resort I wasn't expecting any of those things. But they are pretty little beaches with hammocks and lounge chairs, and the food court even sells some of the kids meals in buckets that come with little shovels. It's a nice theme, but it's not the real thing, and that's fine.
Thank goodness Disney does theming rather than exact re-creations. THink about it ....
When I went to Port Orleans French Quarter, I wasn't expecting drunks and vomit in the alleys, I wasn't expecting live jazz, and I wasn't expecting guys on the balconies to throw beads at my wife and yell, "Show us your t**s!"
Maybe I just have low expectations .... :lol:
The beach's are very pretty and I am just giving you a hard time, however, I would keep an eye out for the gators!! Nets or no nets, they are everywhere.
I lived in Jackson, MS when I was in high school and there were gators on the river there where I would water ski. They wouldn't bother anyone and they would mainly come out at night, but just knowing that they were there made it a little creepy at times. :lookaroun
I actually did even think of the gators until you mentioned it:veryconfu
They don't bother me. I have swam in the ocean with sharks. I actually was swimming on a beach on Martha's Vineyard on year when a shark came really close. The creepy part was it was the beach they had filmed jaws on...:lookaroun
I just wanted to get a clear answer on the alge thing.
aladdinjrstar
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There are a variety of reasons why swimming is no longer allowed in the Disney lakes. One of which is an amoeba called Naegleria fowleri. This amoeba will get into the mucous membranes causing flu like symptoms and will then quite rapidly (3 to 7 days) lead to destruction of brain tissue resulting in death. Mortality rate due to infection is 95%. Infections are very rare because the conditions for this amoeba to infect a human need to be just right. The watter needs to be warm and the soil at the bottom needs to be disturbed. The problem with the lake at Disney are that these conditions are quite common.
There are also several types of bacteria deposited in the water due to bird droppings. That I know of none of the bacteria deposited by birds are fatal but they are found far more commonly then the Naegleria fowleri.
There are also several types of bacteria deposited in the water due to bird droppings. That I know of none of the bacteria deposited by birds are fatal but they are found far more commonly then the Naegleria fowleri.
That really isn't the same. You didn't go to madri gras. I asked because there is info out there that the beaches and lakes were used for swimming at a point in time. Actually the Poly tried out a wave machine in the lake but the errosion of the beach was to much.
aladdinjrstar
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OOOO Has anyone seen alligators in the parks like IN the parks!?
Thank you Master Yoda. :sohappy:
This was the info I was looking for. I know you used to be able to swim in the lakes. I also knew I heard of a reason why you shouldn't.
sknydave
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sknydave
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I personally prefer the salt water ocean to anything, but I grew up about 5 minutes from the beach.