Southwest Florida Southwest Florida Southwest Florida is the region along the southwest Gulf coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is known for its sugar white sand beaches, lush tropical landscape, and winter resort economy. Definitions of the region vary, though its boundaries are generally considered to put it south of the Tampa Bay area, west of Lake Okeechobee, and mostly north of the Everglades and to include Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, and Collier counties. For some purposes, the inland counties of DeSoto, Glades, and Hendry, and the thinly populated mainland section of Monroe County, south of Collier, are also
Lake Okeechobee Lake O? Charles "Trip" Tucker III, (short for "Triple", since he is the third generation of his family to be named Charles Tucker), played by Connor Trinneer, is a fictional character in the television series "". According to Star Trek lore, "Trip" had a sister who was killed by the Xindi along with 7 million other Humans in the year 2153. The CGI depiction of the attack on Earth in shows that the beam hits on the west side of Lake Okeechobee in Glades County and cuts a swath directly south, through Hendry County and Cuba, until reaching South America.