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Canal Point, FL - May, 2008
Watches, bandannas, aspirin, a chance to win a bass boat. Milk, bread, eggs, fantasies of scratch-off and lotto. Candy, ice cream, beer and soda. This is "Downtown," literally - just a few hundred feet from Lake Okeechobee.
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Juno Beach, FL - May, 2008
Palm Beach County, Florida - May, 2008
In case you don't recognize the green stuff, it's corn - man's latest "gas station." I stopped by for a fill-up. Behind the camera, two crows were holding onto the top of a fence-post laughing their feathers off. Crows are endlessly amused by man's odd behavior, especially when this man proceeded to shove two dozen corn-ears down into my gas tank. They were hysterical. They flew off to tell their friends. When the tow-truck finally arrived, crows were everywhere.
May, 2008: Entering the farming district, a vast area in central/western Palm Beach County which begins about twenty miles west of the Atlantic Ocean. This road, old Route #98, leads directly to Canal Point located on the south-eastern tip of Lake Okeechobee. In years gone by, before there were connecting roads, the canal served as the "highway" to and from Canal Point, including the early farms and settlements along the way. And like the turnpikes of today, boaters had to pay a toll to travel the waterway.
May, 2008: Looking north/west from Kanner Highway (Rt. 76), Port Mayaca, FL, three miles west of Lake Okeechobee. Just beyond the treeline, the St. Lucie Canal, which connects the lake to the Atlantic Ocean. Otherwise, a rural area more reminiscent of nature than settlement.
'57 Chevy, waiting for restoration.
Canal Point, FL - May, 2008
Palm Beach County, Florida - May, 2008
May, 2008: Entering the farming district, a vast area in central/western Palm Beach County which begins about twenty miles west of the Atlantic Ocean. This road, old Route #98, leads directly to Canal Point located on the south-eastern tip of Lake Okeechobee. In years gone by, before there were connecting roads, the canal served as the "highway" to and from Canal Point, including the early farms and settlements along the way. And like the turnpikes of today, boaters had to pay a toll to travel the waterway. 
May, 2008: Looking north/west from Kanner Highway (Rt. 76), Port Mayaca, FL, three miles west of Lake Okeechobee. Just beyond the treeline, the St. Lucie Canal, which connects the lake to the Atlantic Ocean. Otherwise, a rural area more reminiscent of nature than settlement.
