Being at a marina we decided to take advantage of the power and cook a hot breakfast. We do not have a inverter on board that will support the little electric oven we purchased for the boat & our propane stove does not work (I think it’s because of a pretty significant dent in the copper line? Yet another thing on the ever growing top ten list of stuff to fix on the boat.). Needless to say hot food is a novelty on this trip. After breakfast it was about 7:30 and we headed out for the day we had hoped to make it as far as the opening for lake ornida where we heard there was a nice amusement park and lots to do. Unfortunately when we got to lock 20 we found out it was broken. We spent the next 3-4 hours chatting with several other boaters while waiting for the repair crew to fix the lock. Once they got the lock working we were back on our way and decided to continue to push until we got through the lock right before the lake so we could try the lake crossing early in the morning to avoid any bad weather.
I had read several folks accounts online mentioning that they had been hung up not being able to cross the lake due to the chop on the lake. It was about 8pm when we got though the lock before the lake and we tied up on the lock wall for the night. There were tons of bugs and we were pretty happy that Amy had picked up some bug candles and spray during her Wal-Mart run a few days ago to help deter them that night.A few pictures of the locks:
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