Into the Okeechobee Waterway
May 4th 2011 Tuesday morning we were out of the marina at 7:25 feeling good that we could make the 30 miles to St. Lucie Lock by 1:00. Except that it isn’t 30 miles, but more like 37 miles, a slight miscalculation. But luckily the currents were with us and no trains stopped us and we arrived at the lock at 12:20. It didn’t occur to us that the 1:00 opening would start with the eastbound traffic, but it
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