Banks Lake Outpost

Banks Lake is a cool spot to hang out and try to spot a gator er’ two.
It’s a huge nature/​wildlife reservation area, with parts of it (closer to the outpost) accessible by foot. The rest of it, you can only access by renting a canoe or kayak from the outpost (although I can’t say how safe I’d feel paddling around a gator infested lake in a kayak…).
There are a couple small boardwalks that reach out over the shore and a ¹⁄₃ mile long path that stretches a bit further out into a peninsula. Other than that, it’s all water and swamp — certified by the red neck girl working the outpost counter to be guaranteed full of alligators (she even named one «Nugget»).
And now, some parting words from the outpost lady:
«People ask me, ‘Are you sure there’s gators in this water?‘
I say: ‘You’re in Southern Georgia, heck yeah there are gators in that water!‘
And then they go and they let their dang kids swim in the waterin’ hole anyway and I say don’t come cryin to me once you ain’t got no kids no more!»