Ortona South Locks Campground

This was our 5th day here at Ortona South Campground. Monday we drove over to LaBelle and went shopping at WalMart Supercenter. Tuesday was the General Meeting for the Indian River Genealogical Society and they had a live Webinar with Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective. I was able to login and watch the Webinar as if I was attending the meeting - yeah, technology!

We've just been relaxing and watching the boats traveling on the Caloosahatchee River and Canal and going through the Locks. 

Mike even made a couple of movies of boats going through the Locks.

The canal is a part of the 152 mile Okeechobee waterway that goes between the Gulf of Mexico and the

New Year's Day Breakfast & a Camping Trip

On January 1 we joined our friends at Mulligan's Beach House in Vero for a New Year's Day breakfast. This is an annual event that Nancy and Bill have and they pay for everyone's meal. There were 8 of us that day - Nancy and Bill, their son Steven, Chris and Matt, Carol and Mike and I. Then we had a group photo taken. It was a great, fun time.

We've spent the last few days getting ready for our trip down to the Ortona South Lock Campground. We left the house this morning about 10:15 and stopped for gas at Raceway ($2.899 a gallon) before getting on to I-95 South. We exited I-95 at Exit 129 at Ft. Pierce and drove west on FL-70 to Okeechobee. We stopped for lunch at noon at Burger King in Okeechobee and had a couple of bacon cheeseburgers for lunch. 

Then south on FL-78 to US-27 South down to FL-80 at Whiddon Corner and then west on FL-80 to Dalton Lane and then north to the campground. We arrived at the campground a little before 1:30 and checked in.

We are on site 23 with a good view of the Caloosahatchee Canal.

We have electric and water hookups and a nice level concrete pad. There is also a nice tall tree next to