Request for Florida guys
 

I'm scheduled for a trip to my father-in-law condo this winter. The condo is located in Fort Lauderdale. I will pass two weeks there and I don't want to stop my tri training sched. There is an artificial lake in the center of the complex. I saw some peoples swim there before, but with a recent posting about snakes in the water...ehhhh...I don't feel very secure to drop myself in these waters....Please light me up on what sort of things I can encounter there...Thanks Florida guys.SmileWavy
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Water Moccasins are aggressive, venomous water snakes. I'm not sure how prolific they are in the Ft L area, but I know FL has lots of them. Don't forget the alligators.

Maybe you could find a YMCA in the area that had a pool...

ALLIGATORS-------You'll never see them comming.

+1 for a pool.

snakes, snapping turtles, alligators, deadly amoebas.....i stay out of the water and in the pool.

oh, the ocean water isn't much better......sharks, jelly fish, red tide...

make that a +1e20 pool

Yeah, the Gators. Anywhere there is water may be a Gator. Stick to the pool.

Alligators and every chemical (fertilizer, pesticides) known to man are in those "lakes" (call them what they are...drainage ponds).

I believe "civilians" can use the pool at the International Swimming Hall of Fame:

International Swimming Hall of Fame

Holy...Thanks for the imputs guys...My god...I was ready to swim in this lake...!!!!...I will listen to you all and find a pool to do my training....up here we don't have this kind of things in the lakes...They're just damn cold....!!!
Tremblant triathlon at the end of May...5 weeks after the ice melted.....:(
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Why not take a swim in the ocean? Shark migration is over. Even in winter, water temps are in the 70's. That should feel like a hot tub to you northerners.

Salt water and me (as a swimer) are not very good friend..you see..I always swallow water when I swim...I'll need to improve my technique a bit to do so...I never swam in ocean at a triathlon yet...