During the Tuesday, April 1 Lee Board of County Commissioners meeting, Assistant County Manager Christine Brady gave an update on Gasparilla Island beach accesses.
At the end of March, Lee…
Captains for Clean Water held a meeting at the Boca Bay Beach Club Monday afternoon, March 31 with 90 Boca Grande attendees.
The event was hosted by Chandler Converse, Jim (Hooter) Hoyt, Peter He…
Hank Irvine
There’s tennis royalty living just off the Gasparilla Causeway in Cape Haze. He would laugh at that description of himself, but then he laughs easily. Hank Irvine has been playing ten…
Above, Ocala Stud, in a photo by Louise Rienagel
BY DAVID O’FARRELL
Through nearly 70 years and three generations, my family’s Ocala Stud Farm has poured heart, soul and heavy reinvestment int…
BY CAPT. JOE LECLAIR
It’s always a thrill to see people catching snook in the springtime in super shallow water. If I told you we have caught all the good ones we have seen, I would be lying. The…
BY CAPT. SANDY MELVIN
It’s transition time in the Boca Grande backcountry. As we move into April and leave the windy cool days of March behind, spring fishing is about to take off.
We’ve notic…
“The wildlife habitat cannot speak so we must and we will.”
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States. Conserved natural resources and extended federal protection to land and water…
The Lee Board of County Commissioners will vote on Tuesday, April 1 to conduct a public hearing for the Gasparilla Island Water Association (GIWA) to adopt a new rate structure and rate study.
On…
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reminds boaters to go slow and keep an eye out for manatees as the slow-moving mammals naturally disperse from their winter refuges.
Manatee…
Proclaiming the new country of Ospreyland perhaps? Christina Rockey caught this osprey that found a dive flag, and took it up to his nest on the Causeway.
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