| I guess they don't sell any guest passports to the alligators
and snakes!
Actually, I don't know how they keep them out of their waterways
(although I read in the paper last year a child was bitten by a
gator in one of the Ft. Wilderness canals), but I have seen a pick-up
truck in the median strip between Epcot and the Magic Kindom with
its driver picking up snakes with a long hooked pole and putting
them in the back of the truck.
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| Disney seems to do their best to keep the snake and gator situation
under control and they appear to be winning. Two funny stories:
One night after returning to Fort Wilderness, a bunch of Disney
employees surrounded a pop-up camper. This was followed by ambulances
and fire trucks. Everybody just stood there and nobody would say a
thing. Finally, some guy came walking down the road whistling and with
a bag over his shoulder. He stepped into the camper, came out carrying
the bag at arms length and walked back down the road. As he passed by,
I asked him what was going on. He simply replied; "It wasn't a very big
one, only this (18-inches) long." Then everybody left. It seems the
happy camper came home to find a snake in his bed.
One day a river country, two employees watched something go by and one
said to the other; "It's a good thing nobody say that one!" Actually,
River Country has a barrier that keep lake critters out, mostly.
I've camped there a lot and have not had a problem. I would not,
however, leave an established path and walk in the woods. One local
tram driver told me that the woods around Fort Wilderness are home to
many dandy kinds of snakes.
doug
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