Depart Salerno Harbor
trying to get a good run today.
Clear skies, sunny, and a light breeze, what more can a boater want.
Travelled down the St Lucie River, St Lucie Canal (much like the Dismal Swamp )
Except there are house along the way. Crossed the Okeechobee lake, very nice, no water 7-10 ft most of the way, Army Corp of Engineers told us 13 ft…..ya right that must have been some time ago in the spring, well anyway no problems, follow the magic Magellan line, and pick up you marks, things will be ok. Near the end, there are two 90 degree turns in order to get around “spoiled grounds”, just a fancy term to say “if you go there you will be aground lol lol).
Arrived in Clewiston at 1500 hrs, to early to stop, moving on to Moore Haven, 19 miles further. Well to tried to set our anchor in the Old Canal, as suggested by Skipper Bob, but after 4 tries, we gave up, not a lot of room to play with, its only 100 ft wide, maybe.
So we did not want to take a marina, after the locks, so we found these Dolphins and tied up to them (bow and stern), now its almost dark in Moore Haven.
In Skipper Bob book about anchorages, it talks about “it being buggy”, well whoever said that was completely WRONG…there are more bugs here than people, and just as big, note to other boaters, DO NOT STOP HERE!!!!!!!!!. We sprayed the heck out of them, now most are DEAD DEAD, and we will to clean them up in the am, see the pic.
I wonder if it was the smell of the deer meat cooking?
Today we saw our first two Alligators in their natural habitat, (note to self. stay out of the water” ) Also today like many other days in our journey the Dolphins seemed to be enjoying the romp in our wake, except today 4 of them were so close to the boat that if my arm was another 2 ft longer, I could have touched the fins….. And they are fast, jumping out of the water and back under in a split second. Its was like they knew we were watching them, and it was a show they were putting on, swimming sideways, poping out of water, give that tail a flick, oh what a sight, Tina would have cried to see such a magnificent sight.
Today we covered 78 statue miles
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