Sunday October 8th 2023

Today was a cloudy day that kept the temperature in the low to middle eighties. It was nice to have a day that wasn’t very humid and flirting with the nineties. The low tonight is forecast to be in the mid to low sixties. Fall weather is here again.

The weekend visitors cleared out of the park before the morning checkout time. Tomorrow isn’t a holiday in Florida. The schools are in session. Walking around the campground in the early afternoon, I counted only fifteen occupied sites out of fifty. Later in the day a couple more RVs arrived. The park remains very quiet and empty.

Traffic in the canal was a little more active today. I saw two boats get locked through the Ortona Lock. That is double the number I saw yesterday. The difference in the activity level from the winter level continues to surprise me. Last time I was here in March I observed several lock transits a day many with multiple boats in the lock.

This afternoon I made a run into LaBelle for groceries. The Walmart on the far side of town was very busy. The aisles were very congested with customers and staff stocking shelves. The vacant space on the shelves provided clear evidence that the store had been busy all day. The good thing is that this Walmart had far more assisted checkout lanes than self service. The assisted lanes were even had staff present to work the registers.