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| Come on, little dinghy! You can make it! |
When we started out, I felt (to be honest) frightened to take a dinghy trip. You have to clamber over Dragonfly's steel railings as the boat heaves in the surf, negotiate the tiny steps jutting from her stern, clamber into our tippy little craft. Now, we're used to it, and we drop down with, if not total grace, much greater speed.
About half the land on Captiva (and on Sanibel, its neighbor) is protected as one kind of wildlife refuge or another, and a nonprofit, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, has a marine lab that's doing research on habitat restoration and water quality.
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| Equipped for rapid seashell assault |
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| Ruddy turnstone makes assault on sand fleas |
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Sanibel is my most favorite island - its beaches are natural and un"groomed", buildings are no taller than the treetops, lights are forbidden on the Gulf side (this protects nesting sea turtles), almost no street lights across the island, and nary a stoplight to be found. At present a large 28 acre tract known as the Bailey Homestead is optioned until June 2011 for purchase by the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation; sale price is $4 million, with additional funds needed to restore the Homestead. This tract will otherwise become a development of probably 3 dozen big new homes. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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