At 0800 we left the wonderful tie-up on Kitty Nicolai's dock in Cape Coral. She lives on a 200 foot wide canal making it easy for large boats to dock there even though her place is at the end of the canal. The route to Lake Okeechobee is lined with beautiful houses.
We made it to the last lock at Moorhaven before it closed at 1700. Duke had been restless for several hours and really needed to pee. After Moorhaven it was only 1 more hour to Clewiston where they were holding the last slip for us......and then it happened. We ran aground in a construction area. Ron thought the orange balls were marking the preferred channel when, in reality, it was marking a shoal on the east side of the canal. A sailboat behind us tried to pull us off, but we were way to heavy for them. After several calls to Tow boat US, we finally found a local guy to help us. The nearest actual Towboat US boat was in Ft. Myers, several hours away. The local guy was 45 minutes away and arrived in 40 minutes. We were considering taking Duke to shore until we spotted the alligator in the water...and he probably had relatives, so Duke stayed on board.
Once we were pulled off the shoal, we were operational with no damage. We arrived at 1915, pulled in to the slip, walked Duke and went to the restaurant. Very tired!!!!
We started this blog to document our Great Loop adventure. We continued to cruise on Adagio, but in 2018 we purchased a Roadtrek Sprinter Class B RV, named Adagietto. We then purchased an Advanced RV Sprinter named Rocky, which we later traded in for Poppy. It was also from Advanced RV, but was a new design, something they called a B-Box
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