Captains Jim and Kathie could not give better advice on cruising the Okeechobee Waterway. Particularly around Clewiston and Moore Haven, I have seem local mosquitoes swarming that seem large enough to carry off your vessel!

Just make sure you have mosquito netting for your ports and doors. Otherwise they will eat you alive as soon as the sun goes down
Werner & Kathie Steuernagel

I drove around the west side of the lake last summer and used up all the windshield washer fluid cleaning the window.
They are black and very nasty, you get attacked in swarms.
Lorne Cook