BY DENISE JUERGENS, ARLENE HALL BGSTA SECRETARY
If you are comparing the BGSTA’s weekly turtle stats listed each week in this paper, you may have noticed a slight increase in both the loggerhead…
From Illinois, turtle appreciation
BY RICK MUSGROVE
When I first arrived at the west side of Gasparilla Island in Boca Grande four and a half months ago, the beach was littered with stakes. Up…
Reflecting on five years at the Clinic
I was walking on the island the other day, passing the construction site where the new Clinic of the Future is taking shape, when I stopped for a moment to…
Last weekend, even on Sunday, Lee County was out and about on the island putting up new parking signs. Yes, on Sunday. We’re scratching our heads as to when we last saw a government officer out on a…
May your Halloween be scarier than what’s actually going on in this country.
A meme often shared around the country
Welcome to Halloween 2025, which has turned from a one-night celebration int…
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
Another amazing week of fall fishing here in Boca Grande! The weather has been very comfortable and the fish have been biting!
We are mainly targeting snook right now…
Last week, America’s coastal cities were obsessed with general high water up and down almost every waterfront. This time it was an October supermoon that, combined with companion storms and winds fa…
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
Ansel Adams, Feb. 20, 1902-April 22,1984
An American landscape visionary photographer, and environmentalis…
BY JAMES J. BLAHA, BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
George Eliot, famous novelist, poet, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian Era, said that “Animals are such agreeable friends – they as…
Adoptive ‘parents’ for nests across Gasparilla Island
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
As of this week, the 2025 sea turtle nesting season for the BGSTA is down to single digits, with only six…
