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These images of South Seas Island Resort in Captiva, Florida, were taken on Sept. 29, 2022, a day after Hurricane Ian made landfall, and are from NOAA’s Emergency Response Imagery website.
South Seas Island Resort is laying off hundreds of employees because of damage from Hurricane Ian that will require a $1 billion massive rebuild.
South Seas Island Resort is a 330-acre (1.3 km 2) resort located on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in the community of Captiva in Lee County, Florida.The original resort, South Seas Plantation, was opened in 1946 as a fishing resort by Clarence Chadwick, following a dry hurricane (salt-water storm surge kills the plants) which ended commercial farming on the island.
Hurricane Ian dealt a devastating blow to Southwest Florida and its beloved attractions, resorts and restaurants. Now, one of its best known resorts has announced layoffs. A hurricane-hit Captiva ...
South Seas Island Resort on 5400 Plantation Rd., was called “the belle of the island” by a Miami Herald columnist in 2006, 18 months after Hurricane Charley in 2004, “ravaged its luscious ...
The Bubble Room was one of the first establishments on Captiva Island to originate the bright pastel colors now widely used there. [12] South Seas Island Resort and Yacht Harbor, a 330-acre (1.3 km 2) resort, occupies the northern two miles (3 km) of Captiva Island. Pepperidge Farm created a cookie in honor of the island. It is a Dark Chocolate ...
Many farmers on the island sold their land for a significantly reduced price to Clarence B. Chadwick, who would transform more than 330 acres (130 ha) of property into the South Seas Island Resort. [43] The hurricane was the first major hurricane to strike the Tampa Bay region since a hurricane in 1848 and remains the most recent, although ...
After Hurricane Charley ravaged Southwest Florida in August 2004, it took 18 months — and a multimillion-dollar renovation — for South Seas Island Resort to reopen after getting severely ...