Lake Monkey Business
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Lake Monkey Business is a Killearn Lakes Plantation(local planned urban development) park, in Tallahassee Florida, surrounded by the lake itself. Its use is exclusive to residents.
Playground equipment used to be present until it was dismantled around 2000. It remains a grassy isthmus with ample shade provided by many moss-draped live oaks and three docks useful to residents for catching various bream. The lake itself has a low population of juvenile American Alligators. Park staff attempt to remove larger alligators once they reach a length of six feet (2 m). Although it is reported that an eight foot (2.46 m) specimen had matured there until captured.
The park is considered "well stocked" in that it supports a large community of Florida Bass and various catfish. The lake is generally green in color with photosynthetic plankton and low in weeds due to invasive carp's feeding habits. The bottom of the lake is between 6-10 feet (1.8-3.1m) in depth and strewn with small branches and trees due to beaver activity. No swimming is allowed due to alligators and rare plankton blooms that have turned the water bright orange for months.
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