Ft Myers Beach To Lake Okeechobee

We got up at the shrill of the alarm clock - 5:45 AM and it's still dark out. I quickly got the coffee started, did my morning routine and started the last buttoning up for our trip. Finally I took the dogs for their morning walk and got Tina up. By then it was 7:00 AM. With the few last minute odds and ends taken care of we pulled out of our site and got the car hooked up. Then it was onto the main drag and across the bridge at the north end of Ft Myers Beach. I was just 7:30, we had made excellent time. The previous day we had written down our travel directions so we drove through Ft Myers headed for I-75. Going north to SR 80 we turned east. It was a pleasant drive, mostly on back country roads and we reached the north end of Lake Okeechobee about 10:30 AM.

The Okeechobee KOA http://www.koa.com/where/fl/09325/photogallery/ was just a quarter mile from the lake. After pulling in and getting set up we went for a bike ride through camp and down the road to the lake. With the drought the lake is perhaps fifteen feet below normal. We walked out on the fishing pier and looked around, not much to see but we will probably do a nice bike ride on the top of the levee. We rode back to camp and changed into our swimming suits then rode our bikes back to the adult pool where we ordered cheeseburgers and fries for lunch. We ate lunch next to the pool then went in for a brief dip. Very inviting!! Grabbing a couple of lounges we spread our towels and lay in the sun reading and catching some rays. A half hour later we went back in the pool then onto the lounge chairs, etc., etc. - heheheh.

Finally we decided to head back to the rig where we could read in the shade. A couple hours later we had dinner then rode back to the pool area to see what was going on, turns out there was a wedding reception in the community center for one of the ladies who works here. Leaving the CC we rode around the park as the sun set then returned to call it a night.

Distance for this leg about 85 miles.

Total for the trip so far, 5,422 miles.