Well we are getting settled into our new home in Okeechobee, Florida. We have a new friend that greets us at our back window every morning. Our new friends picture is listed below. The park and the activities within the park are very nice but outside the park leaves a lot to be desired. I believe we were spoiled by Gulf Shores with so many restaurants and shopping locations existing in a fairly short distance. In Okeechobee we have not found any restaurants we would like to eat at yet but we are still looking. The town seems more like it should be in the middle of Kansas instead of Florida. All you see just outside of town are fields full of cows. There is even a rodeo just north of town. We will have to check that out one of these days. A guy I golfed with this week said Florida is the number one beef producer in the United States. In the week since we have been here I have played golf five times. We rented a golf cart for three months so after paying a trail fee at the golf course I can use the golf cart when I play. I also purchased a three month golf membership. Every morning at 8:30 I show up at a picnic shelter where about 30-40 other golfers show up and get grouped into foursomes. Every day you are playing with three new people which takes a little getting used to but you get to meet a lot of people this way. The nine hole round goes by fairly quickly since each person is driving their own cart. We also take the golf cart around the camp ground, to the pools, to the bar that is on site. PS. the dogs love to ride in the golf cart.
This campground ( I use that term loosely) has about 600 sites for motor homes, fifth wheels and travel trailers. Probably about 550 of these sites are for long term people like us while the rest are for day use. There are some open spots within the campground that I have been told wasn't the case 10 years ago when you had to get on a waiting list to get in . The other side of the park is called the permanent side which consists of park model trailers that have skirting around them. I have talked to a couple of people who own them and one said his measures 34 by 34 feet. The palm trees and flowers and shrubs around these make them look really nice. I would guess there are 200 or more of these units. Most people in the park go somewhere else in the summer but a few I have talked to stay year round. I have talked to people from all of the mid western states and many from Canada. The people across the street are from Manitoba Canada which is north of North Dakota. They travel 2300 miles every year to get here. It's surprising to me to hear how many years people have been coming back here to this RV park. One person today told me he has been here for the last 20 winters and he is also from Canada.
Today I took a bike ride on the rim or the dike or the levy depending on what you want to call a mound of dirt probably 50 feet high and one hundred feet wide that runs 110 miles around a lake. If you ever traveled to this area to see Lake Okeechobee you would be really disappointed since you can't see the lake from the road surrounding the lake. Also around the levy that surrounds the lake you have a ditch (that's what I have heard people call it here) that surrounds the levy. This "ditch" is large enough to handle boats. We aren't exactly sure how they get the boats from the ditch to the lake but it must be some kind of lock type system. I hope this will make a little more sense to you after you look at the pictures below.
Tomorrow we are going to Dunedin to check out a couple of houses and to get more acquainted with the little town in Florida that we fell in love with.
Sorry but the Google Blogger won't let me post pictures tonight for some reason. I will post as soon as I can figure out what is going on.
