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Important Lifestyle Message!


You Are Overlooking Your Gulf Access Canal - With A Tiki Hut on Your Dock  - Right Next to Your Boat- Just Minutes from the Big Sports Fishing Hole


You Are Laid-Back Poolside - Eating Breakfast on Your Screened Lanai - Sipping on Your Favorite Beverage - Enjoying the Clear Blue Skies and Colorful Sunsets


NOW THEN - LOOKING AT THIS PANORAMIC VIEW


Wouldn't It Be Rather Silly Of Me To Ask You - If You Would Rather Be - Up North Shoveling Snow - Or Down South Fishing On The Gulf Of Mexico?


Well Then - Since I Was Genuinely Thinking Of You - While You Are Living Up North Shoveling Snow


It Would Only Be Genuinely Right  - For You To Be Thinking Of Me - When You Are Ready To Move South - And Purchase Your New Waterfront Home!


NOW THEN - WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE FLOATING IN YOUR POOL - OR BOATING - OR JUST GONE FISHING?


WARNING: THIS LIFESTYLE ISN'T FOR EVERYONE!


In Captiva Florida

Captiva Island Florida

Folklore would have you believe that CAPTIVA ISLAND got its' name because the real or fictional pirate "Jose Gaspar", held his female prisoners 'CAPTIVE' on the island, they had no way of escaping.  Historians can't confirm or dispel whether Jose Gaspar, also known as Gasparilla, really existed, but it makes for great storytelling and folklore. 

 

Pirates, ships, blue seas, treasure, pretty women, these are the things that drive imagination.  This is what great movies and books are made from.  What else makes any sense as to how Captiva Island got its name.  That's out story and we are sticking to it.

Captiva and Sanibel are barrier islands that were once joined without the need for bridges until a hurricane in 1926 separated the two by creating a new water channel into the Gulf of Mexico known as Blind Pass.

 

In present day, the only way to reach Captiva, which is at the very tip of the Island, is to access it through Sanibel over the small bridge at Blind Pass and to follow down Captiva Road to South Seas Plantation.  The only way you can get to Sanibel is by driving over the "Causeway" from the mainland of Fort Myers.  Before the causeway was built the only way to there from here was by ferry boat.  The port of Punta Rassa at the entrance of the causeway was at one time the most active sea port in the area where the cattlemen or "Crackers" would drive their herds, board them on boats and ship them out to market.  Florida was and is a major beef producing state.

 

Once you arrive on Captiva Island, passing the J.N. "Ding Darling" Wildlife Refuge and Preserve you travel along the road in the effort to reach the northern most tip of the island.  While you travel, you catch glimpses of the exquisite blue waters and the white sand beaches of the Gulf of Mexico along with the beautiful, homes along "Millionaires Row".  You will find names of those "beach estates" on quirky, ornamental signs at the end of the driveways.  It is fun to watch for the signs and try and match up their names and sign design to what you think the estate might look like.

 

Captiva Village is the heart of local life and is at the north end of the road just before entering the South Seas Island Resort.  The village is home to art galleries and boutiques, a small library and chapel and several restaurants. The Mucky Duck, the Bubble Room and others dot the village and it is the "In Place" with a tropcial feel that makes it a very special gathering place for locals and visitors alike.

 

Captiva along with Sanibel are home to some of the most pristine beaches known to man.  The sea shelling on these islands compare to none by far.  This area is known the world over as the best of the best shelling beaches as well as the place to watch sunsets that take your breath away.

 

Along with the "vacation beach activities" of swimming, shelling, fishing, boating and just kicking back and enjoying the warmth of the sun, you can enjoy the many cultural and environmental activities the island has to offer from the J.N. "Ding Darling" Wildlife Refuge and Preserve, the Island Jazz Concert, Dance Alive National Ballet, and the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum.  The Farmers Market draws visitors from all over Florida every Sunday.  If, I have not enticed you by my prose, I am certain you have heard of Captiva Island and would have had this on your list of places to visit anyway.