New Digs

We are now on the St Lucie river, near Stuart, fl at the St Lucie locks, we have a site about 10 feet off the river. The lock is on our side and we see all the boat traffic close up. The park also has 6 boat slips for the transient boaters, see the boat behind Nita. The damn is in the background and the lock, unseen in this picture, is on the right side.




This park is pristine and the location is hard to beat. Nita is busy reading and capturing a few rays.




Two story barge house on a bigger barge, being pushed by a tugboat, just pasted through the lock.




A German kayaking team practices here in the winter, they store their boats here and put in them in the water at the parks boat ramp. The big boat is going into the lock. The fresh water here is the same level as Lake Okeechobee. The lock will lower this boat 14 feet down to sea level, still on the St Lucie river which leads to the St Lucie Inlet and the Atlantic in a few miles.




There are a number of ponds that I explore around the park. This water plant is decorated with flowers and pearls. The pearls may turn out to be frog eggs?