To get to the East Coast of Florida from Fort Myers there are two options. We could either go west, then down and around the bottom of Florida or go east, and cut through the Okeechobee Waterway. We have done both and both have points to recommend them. This time we chose the Okeechobee, simply because it is shorter.
The Okeechobee does not have the greatest reputation. People call it the "ditch", which, for the most part, it is. We were not impressed our first trip through but now we've grown to quite like it. It cuts through rural Florida, past farmland and wilderness. There are four locks, one lake and a few small towns or parks to stop at. There are tons of birds and alligators.
We are currently in Stuart Florida at a lovely marina, docked across from our boating buddies Grant and Cindy
(M/V As The Crow Flies). From here, we'll just need to wait for the winds to shift Southerly and the seas to settle. We use many sources for weather information, but we tend to hover over
windy.com. We check it daily (actually several times a day) and once it looks good, we refer to several other sites and confer with other boaters in, well, the same boat, waiting for that elusive winter weather window.
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| We must have seen at least twenty alligators, many of them babies, |
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| M/V Mary Rose ahead of us crossing Lake Okeechobee |
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| He was trying to steal my lunch! |
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| approaching a lock |
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| Early morning start |
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