Lake Cane

Lucky's Lake Swim or the Aquatica 1K Enter The Food Chain Swim in Lake Cane

Lucky's Lake Swim in Lake Cane, Orlando

David Heffernan and Kate Coltman at Lucky Meisenheimer's home after a morning swim across Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida

Lake Cane is a natural lake located northeast of Turkey Lake Road and Vineland Road intersection in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. Its total surface area is 85 acres with a mean depth over 16 feet.

Open Water Swimming

• There is no park, fishing or boat ramp, but open water swimmers often use the lake for open water swimming training.
• It is site of Lucky's Lake Swim.
• It is site of the Doc Lucky's Golden Mile, the 2021 Global Swim Series American Championships.
• It is site of the Aquatica 1K Swim
• It is site of 30 years of daily lake swimming. Together with Lucky Meisenheimer, swimmers keep track of the number of times they train in the lake and are awarded a special golden swim cap when they complete 1,000 roundtrip swims and join the 1000K Club.
• It is site of Doc Lucky's Golden Mile, a one-mile swim in Lake Cane held on 25 May 2019 that celebrates 30 years of Lucky's Lake daily lake swim.
• Yuko Matsuzaki completed two long unprecedented lake swims in Lake Cane:
  • 82 km non-stop solo marathon swim in 29 hours 55 minutes in 2007
  • 83 km non-stop solo marathon swim in 33 hours 24 minutes in 13 September 2008

Club Membership

• 1st crossing: On completion of a swimmer's first swim across Lake Cane, they receive a patch with the logo of the swim, a bumper sticker with the logo and website, and get to sign the wall of fame.
• 25th crossing: swimmers receive a white swim cap with the logo.
• 100th crossing: swimmers are inducted into the 100K Club, their name is highlighted in yellow on the wall of fame, a bio is posted on the official website, and they receive a baseball cap with the Lake Cane monster logo.
• 150th crossing: swimmers join the 150K Club and receive a yellow swim cap.
• 200th crossing: swimmers join the 200K Club and receive a T-shirt.
• 500th crossing: swimmers join the 500K Club and receive a silver swim cap.
• 1,000th crossing: swimmers join the 1000K Club and receive a golden swim cap.

External links

• If You Leap Into Lake Cane Tonight
• Doc Lucky’s Golden Mile – Last Chance
• Kevin Dennehy Is Driven, Traveling 100K To Swim 1.6K
• Lucky's Lake Swim
• Yuko Matsuzaki To Attempt World Record At WOWSA Ocean Fest
• Hands Down, It Was A Long Swim By Yuko Matsuzaki
• Aquatica 1K Swim
• Open Water Swimming
• Dangerous Creaturs For Open Water Swimmers
• It's All A Croc - Looks Can Be Deceiving
• Is Lucky Meisenheimer Going To Host The Olympic 10K?
• Open Water Synchronization
• If You Are Lucky, You Won't Need Aflac
• Augustin Has Good Genes
• Great Cities In America For Open Water Swimming
• The Open Water Tipping Point Of Ron Davis
• The Floating Tribe Around The Globle
• Marathon Swimming: Yuko's Fun Journey Continues
• You Can Tell It's Spring
• Charles Can In Cane
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Kathleen Fitzgerald Sets Standard In Lake Cane
• So Lucky To Have Meisenheimer
• Safer Swimmers Expand In Lake Cane
• My Two Sons
• How Many Times Are You Able To Swim Cane?
• Ornithological Obstacles In The Open Water
• Brice Gvurisko Reaches Lake Cane Milestone
• Garfield Thomas, An Ageless Wonder In The Water
• Luckyisms
• Kate Coltman Hangs Up Her Swimsuit For Work
• Everyone Who Swims Across Lake Cane Is Certainly Lucky
• The Hands Of Time
• Proposing In The Open Water
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Gene Gets Up And Goes
• ESPN Will Film Rowdy Gaines At Lucky’s Lake Swim
• Getting Lucky In Lake Cane
• Quiet Man In The Open Water
• The Search For Glennie In Glen Lake
• 20+ People Complete Dynamic Duo In Central Florida
• Dogging It Across Lakes And Oceans
• So Lucky To Be Rowdy
• Doing Dog Paddle In The Open Water