Labelle, FL

Day 129, December 8th, 2009

Beautifully warm day as we moved up the river to Labelle. Just a little town on the Okeechobee Waterway.

There was a free dock in Labelle. We expected pilings again at the dock but had to med moor.

We dropped a stern anchor as we approached and tied the nose to the dock. The boat beside us, flying a maple leaf, looked vaguely familiar but the name on the side was "Freyja" which I didn't recognise. It turned out that "Hart", the owner, had just bought her last April in Thunder Bay.

I asked what the boat's name used to be and he replied "O Canada". Oh yes! Now I remembered very well. Her previous owners, Steve and Lisa, lived in Longlac and we had know them and cruised with them back when we lived in Thunder Bay. What a small world. Hart, had done the same route we had, except he started in Sault St. Marie in October. He plans on taking "Freyja" to Mexico, Cuba and then hopes to cross the Atlantic.

The library is right there at the dock so we were able to quickly catch up with some correspondence and then went to find "JoneseZ". Instead of a chip shack it was a BBQ Shack which had been recommended to us. Their BBQ Ribs were the best we'd ever eaten!!!

With a stop at the grocery store on the way home, we were glad to get back to the boat. A local fella told us about the alligator that lived under the dock and would come out in the evening but we didn't see him, saw lots of mosquitoes though - time to go below!