While out fishing over the weekend, Capt. Chris Campbell and the family he was out with on the Lady Di spotted a rare whale shark while snapper fishing off the coast. “I have been going offshore since I was a young child, and it is probably one of the…

At the Gasparilla Island State Park, crews were out this week restoring vegetation on the dunes. The landscaping at the south end is a major project for Gasparilla Island State Park under their Hurricane Milton Recovery project. Barrier Island Parks Soci…

Sailboat catches bridge Early Sunday morning, the Coast Guard reported that a sailboat had collided with the swing bridge at the Boca Grande Causeway. According to dispatch reports, the vessel’s cabling became tangled around the bridge and temporarily…