Here For a Week in Fort Myers
We rented a
car for 3 days ($40. total - the Enterprise weekend special - and they picked us up/ returned
us to the marina) and saw the area around Ft Myers. It’s cheaper and easier to rent a car than
change marinas. We wouldn’t have gotten a true perspective of the area
without the car.
We visited Naples,
Marco Island, Fort Myers Beach, Cape Coral, another trip over to Sanibel Island
and La Belle (where we are storing the boat).
Fort Myers
is all about tourism and beaches. There is no other industry there.
Fifteen minutes inland it is rural, empty
land, cattle, orange groves, crops and really small towns. It is gorgeous country, green, tropical and
lush.
Friday night
was downtown band night. There were
bands on the street corners all over downtown. Very fun!
Santibel Island
There were
manatees, dolphins and tarpin in the marina.
Great shelling on Santabel Island this time on the north end of the island after a storm. I have no idea what I will do with all the shells I have collected everywhere!!
A combination of pine trees and palm trees everywhere.
Naples is the top real estate by far. It is the second wealthiest city in the country. We talked to a contractor who had worked on 4 waterfront homes - all between 28,000 and 35,000 square feet.
The water is
85 degrees and blue/green in the Gulf.
The sand feels like powder and is pure white.
Marco Island
The river feeding into fort Myers is root beer brown color, just like
all the other bays and rivers.
life preservers free on the beach for kids
We went to the "Drum Circle” in the park downtown. I
liked it so much I might have to look into that at home.
Docktails twice with Tom and Patsy on True North.
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