For the last three or four seasons a group of us from Upriver RV Resort has taken a three-day boat trip to the edge of Lake Okechobee. We had beautiful weather for our trip this year – blue skies, sunshine, perfect boating weather.
We boat up the Caloosahatchie to Clewiston — a tiny, rather rundown town sometimes called the sweetest town in the world because it is where sugar from Florida's cane fields is processed. The huge fields have been carved from part of the Everglades. (The state is now in the process of reclaiming at least some of that acreage back to the grasslands it is meant to be.)
Nowadays, Clewiston is better known as the Gateway to Lake Okechobee, a fishing and birding hotspot.
The scenery along the way is wonderful…. and I am always a happy boater when I can birdwatch along the way!
We stayed at Martin Marina, more of a fishing camp than a fancy resort but a lot of fun. There's a motel there too for those boaters who don't have sleep-aboard boats. This year, we had three sleep-aboards and seven other boats–23 boaters in the group.
This is a picture from last year — it was much colder then. The rocky bank across the canal from our boat is where we saw the iguanas that I showed in Saturday's post (here). For those commenters who were worried that I was getting too close to those scary-looking lizards, you can see that it was quite safe as I was standing on this same dock to take those pictures.
We had a great time doing not much at all – just lazing around the Tiki Bar, taking a few walks, and visiting with friends. Low-key and lovely.
On our boat trips, it is definitely not so much the destination as the journey itself that matters.
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