No Swimming In The Lake!

[DawnCt]

It is not actually bacteria but an amoeba known to inhabit all tropical lakes, which include all of the lakes in Florida. The amoeba resides at the bottom of the lakes and gets stirred up when swimmers, walk wade, swim, etc. This little amoeba enters your nose and finds its way to the brain via the nasal passages and sinuses and can cause, (should one become infected) an amoebic encephalitis (or brain infection). Water skiing is still permitted. Presumably, one doesn't water ski underwater.

 

[tigger'spal]

They never let me near the lakes since that time I............. never mind

(ha-ha just a joke........... I think)

 

[Threehearts]

Am I the only one who needs to watch a little more of Field and Stream?
theaslip- If you're on the boards tonight , I'd love to know if it is a fish, snake or...

Threehearts

 

[freihofer]

water moccasin
or cottonmouth,highly venomous snake , Ancistrodon piscivorus,of the swamps and bayous of the S United States. Like the closely related copperhead, it is a pit viper and has a heat-sensitive organ for detecting warm-blooded prey. The young are born live. The young snake is a pale reddish brown with transverse dark brown bands edged with white; as it ages the colors dull to a blotched olive or brown and then to an unmarked olive or blackish in old specimens. The maximum length is 6 ft (2 m), the average from 3 to 4 ft (90-120 cm). A good climber, the water moccasin often relaxes on branches overhanging the water. If startled it erects its head and shows the white interior of its mouthhence the name cottonmouth. It eats both warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals. It is aggressive in the wild state but may become quite tame in captivity. It is classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Crotalidae.

 

[Threehearts]

Am I the only one who needs to watch a little more of Field and Stream?
theaslip- If you're on the boards tonight , I'd love to know if it is a fish, snake or...

Threehearts

 

[preshi]

I walked along the beach at the Poly in the water...... got a strange bumpy rash on my feet that itched like crazy. Oddly enough was watching the news one night before going out after transferring to the AKL. The news said 4 divers had the same type of rash on their bodies as I had on my feet. Too much blue green algae in the water.... very gross!

 

[sandileigh]

When we were at Caribbean Beach Resort in April I was surprised at the number of parents letting their children play in the water. I think I was most disgusted at the pair of young boys using their Caribbean Beach mugs to pour water over each other's heads! Yuck!!!!