The Okeechobee Waterway is a relatively shallow artificial waterway in Florida, stretching from Fort Myers on the west coast to Stuart on the east coast. The waterway can support barges or private vessels up to 50 feet (15 metres) wide x 250 feet (76 metres) long which draw less than 10 feet (3.0 metres). The channel runs through Lake Okeechobee and consists of the Caloosahatchee River to the west of the lake and the St. Lucie Canal east of the lake.
Lake Okeechobee and the Okeechobee Waterway Project is part of the complex water-management system known as the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project. The project cover 16,000 square miles starting just south of Orlando and extending southward through the Kissimmee River Basin to the Everglades National Park to Florida Bay. This project permitted the development of almost all of southern Florida and protects it from flooding.
Blogs from the Okeechobee:
Moon Dance IV 