Mark Your Calendar – International Coastal Cleanup!

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 @ 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
International Coastal Cleanup – Sanibel Causeway Islands

Join Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum and Keep Lee County Beautiful, Inc. for the Ocean Conservancy’s 32nd Annual International Coastal Cleanup on September 16, 2017. Last year, more than 791,000 volunteers worldwide removed 18 million pounds of trash from coastlines. Come to the Causeway Islands between 9 a.m.  » Read more

Art in Flight

“Galli Halo” by Katy Danca

Millions of travelers can see works by area artists each year as they arrive and depart Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers. 

The current Art In Flight: By the Sea exhibit features the work of ten Florida photographers. Participating artists reside in Boca Raton, Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Lehigh Acres, Marco Island and Tamarac. The exhibit was hung this July and will remain on view until July 2018 in the upper level hallways leading to the B and D concourses at the Southwest Florida International Airport.   » Read more

World’s Largest Junonia

Larry Strange holding the world’s largest junonia. Photo by Jeff Lysiak.

 

One of the iconic shells that Sanibel has become known for, the junonia, always seems to draw the attention of residents and tourists alike due to its renowned beauty and scarcity. 

And now, the world’s largest recorded junonia – a specimen measuring nearly six inches in length – calls the island home.   » Read more

A Touch of Sanibel

What a delightful email from guest Ellen C., who resides in Fairport, NY:

Your “Game On” blog about the Sanibel Rocks group that encourages people to paint shells from Sanibel, encouraged me to send you the picture below. 

My son proposed to his fiancé on the beach on Sanibel three years ago and the following year, 5 months before their wedding,  » Read more

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