Sports & Outdoors
EcoWatch: Thanksgiving Day 2024 – filled with hope and resolve
November 21, 2024
“May the Stars Carry Your Sadness Away May the Flowers Fill Your Heart With Beauty May Hope Forever Wipe Away Your Tears, And Above All, May Silence Make You Strong.”
Chief Dan George, Chief of t…
SW Florida Fishing: More than some fish…
November 21, 2024
BY CAPT. JOE LACLAIR
Over the last couple weeks we have been cleaning up from Hurricane Milton, elected a new president and catching fish. Fly fishing for snook, tarpon and redfish has been great…
Return of sand continues at Boca Grande gulf front
November 21, 2024
Work continues across the beachfront by Lee County as sand from Boca Grande streets is returned to help reshape eroded banks.
Photos by Dusty
Iguanas get cold-blooded break, chill til Feb.
November 21, 2024
Lee County’s iguana-removal vendor for Boca Grande will be taking a winter hiatus which began Friday, Nov. 15 and will last until Feb. 15.
Brian Ambrose is the technician for Blue Iguana Pest Con…
Fisheries disaster funds
November 21, 2024
As part of the Rebuilding Florida Fisheries Program, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is encouraging eligible sectors to apply for disaster relief funding. The deadline for appl…
G.I.F.T. returns to benefit the island for the 29th time
November 21, 2024
The 29th annual Gasparilla Island Fly Fishing Tournament is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 26 and will benefit the Boca Grande Historic Society’s ongoing efforts to document and preserve the unique isl…
State Park now open at Range Light, main lot at Belcher still closed
November 21, 2024
Florida State Parks reopened three parking areas for Gasparilla Island State Park last weekend, and the “Beaches Closed” electronic signage at the Boca Grande Causeway toll was removed.
The thre…
Go deeper this Thanksgiving week
November 21, 2024
Strong fish stocks – reds, snook and trout
We might need to search a little deeper this year for reasons to celebrate Thanksgiving.
If we are reading this, there is already a lot to celebrate…
EcoWatch: Two strikes and we’re still not out
November 14, 2024
“Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life bso much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on eart…
Educate Boca Golf Scramble moved to Dec. 14
November 14, 2024
So far, there are 20 teams signed up for the Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce’s Educate Boca Golf Scramble, which was moved to Dec. 14 after Hurricane Helene.
The fundraiser was originally s…