CITY DOCK, MOORE HAVEN, FL

Moore Haven Lock

Moore Haven Lock

Lake Okeechobee, Rim Route

Lake Okeechobee, Rim Route

Johnny B, Lake Okeechobee, Rim Route

Johnny B, Lake Okeechobee, Rim Route

Lake Okeechobee, Rim Route

Lake Okeechobee, Rim Route

Burning downed trees from the season's hurricanes

1 to 3 February, 2005. Well, we're out of Lake Okeechobee. We stayed 3 night here but only had to pay for one at 75 cents per foot. This place has a great grocery store nearby (B & B Grocery) with lots of great deals. We bought a lot of food here, including a package containing several cloves of garlic and several jalapeno peppers for 33 cents. They have carts of damaged cans for pennies on the dollar too. We also found a Goodwill store and bought a Presto WeeFry Skillet for $2.99 and a Dustbuster for $2.99. The skillet is great because we don't have to use up our propane to cook when we have electricity. We can even heat up the coffee pot on it.

We met Lance, a homeless guy whose mother's property was confiscated by the government for some dumb reason. Very nice guy. He was staying at the video store owned by his friend who was currently out of the country. The front window was smashed out and apparently he had to contend with rats in there. Even though he was down on his luck, he bought some ribs and chips to cook up for us on one of the grills at the dock. He even bought the beer! It was fun to grill and drink beer all day for a change. We were issued a key for the shower here and we let him use it. The night before we left, the water pump on the dock sprung a leak and gushed water over the dock for an hour or so until someone came to turn it off. We had read about a 90 year old woman who had bought the bank building here and had a trimaran (triple-hulled sailboat- possibly for sale). I went into the "Anne Tiques" store that she owned but she was in Texas. Apparently, her husband owned the boat and didn't want to sell it.