Sugar and Fruit

Leaving Highlands Hammock State Park, we noticed the orange groves. Who hasn’t seen the advertisements for Florida orange juice? We stopped at Moore Haven KOA overnight. It was laundry day and full hook ups were needed before continuing to dry camping at Flamingo Campground in Everglades National Park.

At Moore Haven KOA, I was a bit surprised to hear French spoken at the pool and to see a bookshelf of books written in French. Then as I walked past a campsite, I spotted the Quebec license plates. Then it clicked – the Canadian snowbirds made it south this year.

Continuing on from Moore Haven, we spotted smoke from several fires. Then we came across the sugar cane fields next to the road and realized that the smoke was from the cane field fires. We hadn’t associated sugarcane with Florida, but Dominos Sugar had.

Our last stop before arriving at the Everglades was the Robert Is Here fruit stand. First we had a lunch of a cuban sandwich and a key lime milkshake. Yum. After walking around the courtyard a bit, we tried two fruits that we had never had. First we tried the sapodillo, which was described as a pear with brown sugar. That’s pretty accurate, especially for the texture. Then we tried the canistel, which was like an egg custard. Both were pretty good. You could even have them as your milkshake flavor if you wanted to try them that way. 

Sugar cane fires

Harvesting

Yum!

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