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Blind Pass. Coordinates: 26°28′33″N 82°10′41″W. Blind Pass is the strait that separates Captiva Island from Sanibel Island in Lee County, Florida. [1] Blind Pass from Sanibel Island looking towards Captiva Island with Blind Pass Bridge at left.
Sanibel is an island and city in Lee County, Florida, United States. The population was 6,382 at the 2020 census, [4] down from 6,469 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The island, also known as Sanibel Island, constitutes the entire city. It is a barrier island —a collection of ...
The Sanibel Causeway is a causeway in Southwest Florida that spans San Carlos Bay, connecting Sanibel Island with the Florida mainland in Punta Rassa. The causeway consists of three separate two-lane bridge spans, and two-man-made causeway islands between them. The entire causeway facility is owned by Lee County and operated by the Lee County ...
Not so fast, Florida leaders say. Howard Cohen. October 20, 2022 at 10:26 AM. Gov. Ron DeSantis/Twitter. The hurricane-damaged Sanibel Causeway has reopened, slightly ahead of schedule after ...
December 1, 2022 at 12:44 PM. Two months after Hurricane Ian shattered homes and businesses in Southwest Florida, some tourist magnets in Sanibel, Captiva and Fort Myers Beach are back or about to ...
Captiva is accessed by a small bridge that crosses Blind Pass from Sanibel Island. There is a toll to use the causeway that goes from the mainland to Sanibel Island. Many of Captiva's homes, condominiums, and businesses were destroyed during Hurricane Charley in 2004, but the island recovered shortly thereafter.
Pine Island. Pine Island is the largest island on the Gulf Coast of peninsular Florida in the United States. Located in Lee County, on the Gulf of Mexico coast of southwest Florida, it is also the 118th largest island in the United States. The Intracoastal Waterway passes through Pine Island Sound, to the west of the island.
Island-class patrol boat. USCGC Knight Island, commissioned in 1992, is the second newest Island-class boat. The Island-class patrol boat is a class of cutters of the United States Coast Guard. 49 cutters of the class were built, of which 3 remain in commission. Their hull numbers are WPB-1301 through WPB-1349.