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Marco Island is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 15,760 at the 2020 census, [4] down from 16,413 at the 2010 census. The population more than doubles during the winter. Parts of the island have scenic, high elevations relative to the generally flat south Florida landscape.
The Jolley Bridge opened in 1969 and was the second vehicular bridge connecting to Marco Island. The first was the original span of the Goodland Bridge built in 1938. When it opened, it included fishing piers below the bridge. [4] The piers were heavily damaged after the landfall of Hurricane Wilma in 2005, and were subsequently removed. [5]
The Tolomato River near the Northeast Florida Regional Airport also reached its highest level ever, cresting at 5.58 ft (1.70 m). [194] Three tornadoes touched down in St. Johns County. The first was an EF1 spawned over the Matanzas River just northeast of the Castillo de San Marcos.
The Ten Thousand Islands are located near the south end of the Florida peninsula on the Gulf Coast, west of the Everglades Indian Key Pass - Ten Thousand Islands. The Ten Thousand Islands are a chain of islands and mangrove islets off the coast of southwest Florida, between Cape Romano (at the south end of Marco Island) and the mouth of the Lostmans River.
Coconut became a weekend haven for Marco islanders and Naples boaters and offered magnificent shelling, great fishing and ample camping and picnic areas. Between Coconut and Hideaway Beach was a tremendous anchorage for locals and cruising boaters.
A stolen outboard engine — it’s the bane of boaters. About 600 high-priced outboard engines were stolen in Southwest Florida and other parts of the state, and then fenced through a Miami-area ...
Isles of Capri is an island community located in unincorporated Collier County, Florida. The isles are a grouping of four mangrove islands that were developed and connected in the 1950s. [1] The isles are connected by Capri Boulevard, and can be accessed from nearby SR 951 (Collier Boulevard). Isles of Capri is located just north of Marco Island.
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