I took all three of this pictures while on an airboat ride on Lake Panasoffkee. Floridians often call it lake Pam for short. The air boat ride was unsuccessful for most because of the season. March is very warm in Florida especially this year and the alligators are hiding under logs and other plants and trees that provide shade for them. Alligators swim up to 11 mph and can stay under water for 25 minutes. So, when it’s 85 degrees and very dry, they swim a lot and stay under water as much as they can. On a side note, alligators in the past were a threat to people in Florida because they were coming out of the water and on to dry land surrounding people. This past year it has been very hot so it has not been much of an issue. With that being said, my grandparents that live in The Villages have had multiple phone calls alerting them that a few of the alligators came out of the ponds near the golf courses and were lost trying to find their way back to the ponds while animal safety was on their way. The first photo and the last photo look almost identical but they are not. To be honest, these photos were taken 10 miles apart. I wanted to show you all the comparison because this lake is very swampy and as you can tell many swamp like areas that are very narrow and spots like photographed above all look so similar it is very easy to become lost on Lake Panasoffkee.
