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Originally Posted by Crowbob

I don’t get in the water of it doesn’t smell like chlorine.

Well, not true. I will walk along the shore of Lake Michigan and let my ankles get wet. In daytime only.

So what's the fear? Fear of drowning? Fear of "I don't know what's in there that I can't see"? Something else?

How about beaches, like the gulf coast of FL or Atlantic or Pacific?

I grew up swimming, mostly in salt water, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico. I've done very little lake swimming. The deep mat of vegetation on the bottom of a lake bugs me. I don't like to stand in that stuff. But it's not a fear/phobia.