Florida, Moore Haven - Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - Lake Okeechobee

Lake Okeechobee is the largest fresh water lake in Florida and we took off around noon to ride around it, four hours later we were back.  I’m sure we spent at least an hour taking pictures, talking to a couple we met from Michigan and stopping at Dunkin’ Donuts for a break.  It was a beautiful ride, the weather cooperated – all in all just a wonderful day.

The lake has a high levy around it so you can’t actually view it as you are riding except for a couple of places.  The roads were great and traffic was minimal.  The first place we stopped for a closer look was Port Mayaca Port and Dam.  This is where we met the couple from Michigan who were also on a motorcycle.  We spent some time talking about how happy we were to be in Florida rather than Indiana or Michigan.  We compared notes on what we had seen of the lake so far since we came from different directions.

It feels like you are looking at the ocean.  We think the water level is down quite a bit because they are doing some upgrading to the levy.  Still a beautiful sight.

 

A boat came through the locks as we were enjoying the view.

 

 

A few waterfowl were out enjoying the sunshine.

A racing team from Elkhart, IN was doing some practice runs with some kind of watercraft (we think maybe a runabout), whatever it was, it can move!!  We didn’t stop to introduce ourselves since we figured they were busy.

At Lakeport there was a picnic area with boat ramps so we stopped to explore.  There were a lot of empty boat trailers in there but most of them must have been out so far that we couldn’t see them.  It would be easy to get lost in this maze of water channels.

The picnic area was very nice.  Public restrooms were also available here.

 

 

Most of our pictures were taken from a wooden lookout platform.  It originally looked a little precarious, Greg went first and decided looks were deceiving, it was very sturdy and we really enjoyed the view.

 

 

 

We decided that the best parts of the ride around Lake Okeechobee were the ones that were closest to where we are located so I have a feeling we’ll be seeing them again.