Plan an appropriate tool to find balance while managing growth
BY THE GICIA
The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association has been working to preserve island life since 1971…
Some on this island are readers and devotees of Wendell Berry, the Kentucky writer whose thinking undergirds many of today’s ideas of agriculture and sustainability. One of his ideas that has been a…
“There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in…
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
It feels like summer here in Boca Grande and the tarpon have been biting! Lots of tarpon have been caught around Little Gasparilla Island, Gasparilla Island, Cayo Costa a…
To the Editor:
It is hard to dispute that the residential roadways of Boca Grande have become overwhelmed with parked cars. The issue has increased steadily, to the point that the streets in our…
Taking on a cleaner island, honoring a friend
BY NANCY LECKERLING
Twenty-five years ago, when my husband Jon and I were considering the purchase of a home on Captiva Island, a friend of ours…
This Tuesday, the first rain of the season arrived. It was a real rain, too, precisely at 2:29 p.m., and resulted in some “nostalgic” puddles on the sides of the roads, ably slurped up by the sandy…
“The whales do not sing because they have an answer they sing because they have a song.”
Gregory Colbert, poet, filmmaker, photographer
There are recent reports that AI has helped scientists h…
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
Another great week of fishing here in Boca Grande! We are catching a little bit of everything from snook, redfish, trout to sharks, tarpon, jacks and bluefish!
The sno…
BY JAMES J. BLAHA, DIRECTOR BOCA GRANDE HISTORY CENTER
“To write history requires
a whole life of observation,
of inquiry, of labor, and correction,”
Thomas Jefferson 1817…
