“The longer I live, the more
beautiful life becomes.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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Today’s Guest Photographer: Karen Husbands
Tag: oceans reach
Banging Out Cool Beats
Rain or shine every Sunday, you’ll see a crowd forming in Centennial Park about an hour before sunset for the weekly Fort Myers Drum Circle.
The downtown, waterfront space has a large covered pavilion, perfect for the musicians, although other events occasionally force the circle to migrate to other spots in the park.
Young and old come from all over Southwest Florida to bang out cool beats, » Read more
Ding Darling Days
Mark your calendars! The 30th annual “Ding” Darling Days birding and eco-festival is scheduled for the weekend of October 12 to 14 at the JN “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel.
New for this year, Cool Kids Zone on Sunday Family Fun Day will provide activities in the Visitor & Education Center, so families can come in to cool off. It will include puppet shows, story and crafts, » Read more
True Sense of Peace
Scenes from Sanibel #43
I prefer living in color.
– David Hockney
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Today’s Guest Photographer: Karola Janssen » Read more
Kicking off the 2019 Season!
BIG ARTS’ upcoming season will feature 17 main stage performances that run the gamut – peppered in amongst art exhibits, a film series, lecture programs and more – and tickets are now on sale.
The 2019 Schein Hall series will run from January through March, kicking off on Jan. 5 with Beginnings, a Chicago tribute band that has performed at Disney’s EPCOT Center and Las Vegas casinos since 2002. » Read more
Hands Along The Water
Hundreds of people – family, friends, strangers – took to the Sanibel Causeway Islands to lock hands and stand together united in drawing attention to ongoing water quality issues.
The Hands Along The Water event took place recently on Island B, organized in unison with similar events across the state.
The mission was to bring communities together and unite them in solidarity, putting differences aside to come together for one cause — » Read more
Mangrove Tree Crab
Article and photo by Kyle Sweet, superintendent of The Sanctuary Golf Club
The Mangrove Tree Crab can be found all along the barrier islands of Southwest Florida and may at first glance look like a spider climbing along our native Red, Black and White Mangroves. As crabs go, they are very small, only being an average of an inch across. Their coloration greatly varies from olive green to brown and have very sharp tips on the ends of their legs that allow them to efficiently climb all throughout the trees. » Read more
Red Tide Update
Photo taken outside of Ocean’s Reach on Weds, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.
We’ve received numerous phone calls and emails inquiring about the red tide bloom that reached Sanibel Island near the end of July. This photo was taken mid-afternoon yesterday, showing “Day-10-and-Counting” of a clean beach outside of Ocean’s Reach. The red tide air irritants have dissipated, and there’s just a hint of fish odor, » Read more
Lucky Loo
The public restrooms at the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge Visitor & Education Center on Sanibel Island are in the top 10 list of contestants in the 2018 America’s Best Bathroom® Contest.
Contest host Cintas Corporation this week informed the “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge (DDWS) that the refuge’s Learning Lavatories (#LearningLav) restrooms project ranks among the annual contest’s finalists.
Voting for the contest begins Monday, » Read more
