Hanging at the Lock

 TIKA in the foreground and the St. Lucie Lock and Dam in the background

The St. Lucie Lock and Dam drops 13 feet.  It is the biggest drop of the 5 locks in the waterway across Florida through Lake Okeechobee.

Women's rowing team from Germany?  They were speaking German anyway.   I guess rowing team practice on the waterways of Florida in the winter as we saw the Boston College women's team practicing in Vero Beach.

Checking out Admiral Marlene checking out the lock doors on the high side.  They fill the locks by opening the doors about a foot and a 13 foot wall of water crashes into the lock.

Captain Kevin sporting a 3 week old boating beard.  Ok, is my chin a couple of years older than the rest of my face?

Today we had a service call on the boat to repair our seawater pump (ouch on the wallet).  The weather improved greatly so we explored the lock and walked 3 miles round trip to a Dairy Queen for lunch.  This was the closest restaurant to the lock facility.  We had to walk over an overpass over the Florida Turnpike with no sidewalk.  We had our doubts if we wanted to do this as this overpass was a 4 lane state highway and we were a little worried about getting hit by a truck.  It was a great time to pull out that over used phrase "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it"....and we did.  The Dairy Queen chocolate chip cookie dough Blizzard was especially good as a reward for our hard work and bravery to get there.