Boat Trip Success

Over the week-end we shuffled boats...using big boats and small boats.
There were four boats involved...two 32’ Carvers...Dockie & Ann’s, Eagle’s Nest and Kurt & Melissa’s, Double Eagle.
Sam & Sally in their small, Sea Hawk, and Charlie and I in the Go Gator, escorted the big boats up the Kissimmee River going from the north end of Lake Okeechobee. We passed through 5 locks and traveled about 18 miles on the old river run, going approximately 120 miles round trip.
The current was quite swift and in one area a tree had fallen across the river with just enough room to pass. The Double Eagle was at a disadvantage since only one engine could be used due to her injuries last summer in the Bahamas. A cracked shaft and a few other things caused her to be a bit disabled but having an expert captain and crew, Kurt, Melissa, Pammy and Roxy too...... she managed magnificently.
Anchoring at Kisso we spent the night and the next morning we small boats returned to Okeechobee. The trip with the big boats took 10 hours....the little boats return took.....three.
Adventure galore....sometimes more than we bargain for.
Guess what?
We may have to do the same trip again next week.
This time accompanying Aaron, our ‘little’ brother in his large boat and using small boats again as ‘trail blazers’.....Aaron will be starting his trip from the Daytona Beach area so his trip will be quite long, nautically speaking.
Oh well, someone has to do it.....might as well be......nautical ‘fools’ like us!
See pictures of Eagles Nest and Double Eagle on this trip....
Link #1...Kissimmee River Trip Album.
Enjoy Life!