Moore Haven City Dock.
Author: Doug
Tied up at Moore Haven city dock.
We left Fort Myers yesterday after stowing weeks of food onboard our little boat. We put so much stuff on board I think we raised the waterline an inch or two. We pulled out about 4:00 and took a short run up the Caloosahatchee River to dowtown Fort Myers where we anchored behind a little mid river island called Beautiful Island (it's nice but not beautiful, really). My brother Chuck and his son Bryant came with us and stayed for dinner. Then I took the dinghy and ran Chuck into the city Yacht Basin where my dad picked him up. Bryant is going across the state with us to West Palm Beach, he is a great boater and fisherman (we call him the fish whisperer) so he is a ton of help.
We will follow the Okeechobee Waterway across the state through lake Okeechobee then down the St. Lucie River where it pops out at Stuart. We have to go through 5 locks on the way.
We left this morning at 9, after the boys made a dinghy run to Beautiful Island. They forgot fishing rods so Simon and Bryant came back to the big boat to get them, stranding Bryce on the island alone for a whole 30 minutes. He said he was worried that he would have to eat his own leg. It blew really hard today, gusting to 30 knots, which made it kind of hairy in Ortona Lock. I'm worrying about our crossing of Lake Okeechobee tomorrow, it is a big lake, but shallow and can get really nasty in strong NW winds, which is exactly what we have tonight. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
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