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Cayo Costa State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Florida, on Cayo Costa (formerly known as La Costa Island or Padilla Rancho), an island directly south of Boca Grande (Gasparilla Island) and just north of North Captiva Island, approximately 12 miles (19 km) west of Cape Coral. The park is accessible only by charter boat (with or ...
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum opened to the public in 1995, and operates as an information and reference center for national and international scientists, students, and shell enthusiasts, particularly those who are interested in the marine, terrestrial, and freshwater mollusks of the Gulf of Mexico and Florida.
It is located on Captiva Island. As of the 2020 census, the population was 318, [4] down from 583 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located just offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, the island is just north of Sanibel Island.
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NOAA’s satellite images gathered under the heading, Hurricane Ian (2022), include hard-hit places like Sanibel and Captiva, Pine Island, Marco Island, Venice, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach ...
SCCF Headquarters building on Sanibel Island, Florida in Dec. 2023. The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) is an American ecosystem protection group. It was founded in 1967 on Sanibel Island, Florida to preserve the island's interior freshwater system. [1] [2] The non-profit's mission has since evolved to also protect and care for ...
Contour map of the shell works at Key Marco.. Shell works are large and complex assemblages of shell found in southwest Florida.Shell works include mounds and other deposits, with features described as borrow pits, canals, causeways, cisterns, crescents, sunken plazas, ponds, ramps, raised platforms, ridges, rings, walls, and "water courts".
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 return. For others, it will ...