Southern Camping Trip 2024 / Day 29

Moore Haven KOA

Moore Haven , Florida

Wednesday, February 28, 2024   

Moore Haven campground sunset.

Marc-  Today was another travel day so there is not much to write about. We left Fort Lauderdale in late morning and stopped for lunch at a small park in the village of Moore Haven on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River that connects Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico.  We found a nice picnic table with a roof for shade from the strong Florida sunshine.  The town provides free dockage to visiting boaters.  We saw only one trawler tied up and saw no boats traveling on the river.  Our campground is about 15 miles East of the village in Cattle Ranch country.  On our way up from Fort Lauderdale we passed through about 100 miles of sugar cane fields.  We passed by field harvesting of the cane and a processing plant.  The fields are burned before harvesting to decrease excess foliage and to sweeten the resulting sugar cane.

One of many trucks seen today transporting harvested sugar cane.

Offices of the largest Sugar company in Clewiston.  This town is also known as Sugarland.

Young sugar cane.

Turtle that kept us waiting to enter the Moore Haven campground.

Some of the large campers here.  

These huge coaches are towing huge trailers.  Wow!