La Belle

When we were at the Tampa RV Show, we received a brochure for an RV Park called Whisper Creek in La Belle, Florida.  The park looked very nice from the pictures and they were offering 4 free nights with "no strings attached."  No sales presentations or anything.  So we decided to check it out and stay there for 4 nights beginning Sunday.

After about a 1 1/2 hour drive south from Bowling Green, Florida, we arrived at Whisper Creek.  They assigned us site #428 in The Glenn section of their resort.  The sites are all grass but level and very big with full hookups.

The older section of the park is primarily filled with nice park models a lot of which have added on sun rooms or screened in porches.

After getting set up on Sunday, we went into town to get some groceries.  We decided to try out a Mexican-Italian Grill in town called Panchos Corleone.  We split their Nachos Supreme and boy were they good.

Whisper Creek has a lot of activities going on daily.  The first activity that we could not pass up was the ice cream social on Sunday night which gave us a chance to meet some of the very nice people living here.  The weather was very nice and warmer than what we had been experiencing.  We got our 10,000 steps in every morning and even went to the pool a couple of days.  Chuck also learned a new game called Petanque which is a lot like bocci ball.

On Wednesday, we decided to take a day trip over to Moore Haven and Clewiston that are near Lake Okeechobee.  We are far enough south now that we began to see the sugar cane fields like we saw last year when we were at Lake Okeechobee.

It is so flat here in southern Florida.  Below is a sugar cane field that had been recently burned off and harvested.

We haven't traveled on an interstate since we were in Wildwood and have traveled on more back roads in Florida this year than we ever have.  These back roads are maybe not as "scenic" as Utah or Montana, but they are still beautiful in their own ways with farms, ranches, and little towns.  Best of all:  not much traffic!

We first drove to Aruba RV Park in Moore Haven to check out the park and to visit Jim and Linda, a couple we had not seen in years that we had known from all the years we used to go down to the camp on Kentucky Lake.

Aruba RV Park is located off a canal that leads to Lake Okeechobee via a lock.  It has several sites where you can tie off a boat to a dock located right behind the site.

Jim was telling us he had recently caught a 7 lb and an 8 lb bass and had thrown it back where these docks are.  Hmmm...wonder if they're still there??

After a nice visit with Jim and Linda, we drove over to Clewiston which Chuck had been too many years ago when he and Jerry would come to Florida fishing.  After driving around town and picking up a few groceries at Wal-mart in Clewiston, we headed back home.  We decided to go to Panchos Corleone again before going back to the RV.  And it's official:  we think Panchos Corleone has the best nachos we have ever had.  (Sorry Garcias!)  :)