Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Museum Cruise At Swamp Cabbage Festival Weekend

LABELLE, FL. -- LaBelle Heritage Museum's Cruises on the Caloosahatchee, a popular event at Swamp Cabbage Festival, will be slightly different for the 54th annual festival according to museum president Joe Thomas. He said, "We decided the 8:00 a.m. cruises were just too early for the overwhelming majority and decided to cancel them. 

 The first cruise on both Saturday and Sunday will now begin at 11:15 in the morning with Saturday's cruise being the popular "Story Teller's Cruise" and Sunday's being a new catered gourmet continental brunch cruise with mimosas for seven parties of four people each that we hope will be a popular addition." 

Thomas added the 1:45 in the afternoon cruises on both days will feature River Caretakers including local paleontologist and environmentalist Scott Perry joined by an expert from the Coastal & Heartland National Estuary Heartland and comments from M/V River Queen's Captain John Cookman,whose livelihood depends on a healthy Caloosahatchee River. 

LaBelle's own Margaret England encores her popular "Birds Roosting at Sunset" cruise that winds up both days at 4:15 p.m. with able assistance from Stephen Buczinsky, president of the Hendry-Glades Audubon Society, and Scott Cooper, retired science educator and current docent at Six Mile Cypress Preserve, putting in an appearance on Saturday's cruise and, hopefully, Larry Luckey, Sr., a member of one of Southwest Florida's preeminent pioneer families and retired Glades County Property Appraiser on Sunday. 

 The cost is $30 person person for each cruise with an additional $30 per person for Sunday's brunch cruise. 

 Advance tickets for all cruises are available through Eventbrite at https://caloosahatcheeexcursions.eventbrite.com. (Please note there are three e's in a row in the Eventbrite link.) For information, leave a message at (863)674-0034 if your call goes to voicemail.

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