Rogue ICW Day 2

Well today was a pretty long day.  Much longer than I had originally anticipated.  We were on the water from about 8 a.m. until almost 8 p.m.  We reached my planned destination of Labelle Fl. on the Okeechobee waterway, but it was a 90 mile day, longer than the 75 I thought it would be. We had to negotiate a couple of bridge openings which held us up some, we also went through our first lock. Another first for me. I put Rick to work today pulling up and stowing the anchor, rigging fenders and lines in the lock, and docking tonight in tight quarters.  I had to parallel park this baby between two other boats at the dock. Another first.

Our route today took us from Lemon bay in the GICW down through Pine Island Sound, Gasparilla Bay, Charlotte Harbor, into the Caloosahache River past Fort Myers and Cape Coral and into the Okeechobee Waterway.  Tomorrow will be a big day, several more bridges to negotiate, and four, yes count em, four locks to also negotiate.  Then it will be across Lake Okeechobee.  I think tomorrow may be the most challenging day of the entire trip.  A lot going on.  So far so good.

View looking aft in the Gulf yesterday

View looking fore going through Pine Island Sound 

This is downtown Ft. Myers as we went by today.

Until tomorrow....Stay tuned.