Sept 22- The Okeechobee Waterway

The trip through the lake was quiet. Lots of sugarcane growing everywhere.
For miles, and since we travel at 10 to 12 miles an hour, HOURS, nothing but blue skies and blue water

We were fortunate that the Lake was so peaceful and our travels around the loop were not delayed by the weather. We were reading in the Looper news, others Great Loop travelers could only boat on Lake Michigan 4 days of the last 16 because that's when the seas were only 3 -5 foot.

The channel was like this for hours and you can get lulled to not keeping a close eye out

until

you look and see a cow's head in the water in front of the boat. I screamed stop and naturally by the time I got my camera she had started to move from her morning swim.

Our very last lock of the trip.

We spent the night at the State park adjoining the lock.