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Pro
great walking/shelling and off season lack of crowds
Con
Can be crowded and public parking is expensive
In a nutshell
a welcome respite from the unchecked development found elsewhere in the Sunshine State
18 Reviews after sanibel island's beautiful beaches the ding darling national wildlife refuge is one of the most visited attractions in sanibel. the refuge was created in 1945 and is named after j.n. "ding" darling who was instrumenal in saving this part of sanibel island from development. this 6,400 acre...
13 Reviews sanibel island is famous for it's beautiful gulf beach and it's excellent shelling. sanibel has six public beach accesses. there is timed ticketed parking at the accesses where you pay for the amount of time you want to spend on the beach. these timed tickets are tranferable to any of sanibel's...
7 Reviews First lit on August 20, 1884, the 98-foot tall iron skeleton tower closely resembles the current Cape San Blas lighthouse tower. Both towers have a central spiral staircase beginning about 10 feet above the ground.
3 Reviews Over on the gulf side, brown seaweed grew. And it hugged the shoreline like a thick blanket, stretching about 15 feet or more into the water. To get to clear swimming water you had to forge your way through it. Not a pain, unless grasping underwater feelings panic you!
3 Reviews many visitors to sanibel island come here to collect sea shells. the bailey matthews shell museum has a collection of over 150,000 shells. the museum has exhibits on shells, mollusks, and fossilized shells. a very interesting museum on sanibel island.
4 Reviews and 551 Opinions The Sanibel Inn is a great hotel for the price and Amenities. Rooms have screen in porches,...
1 Review and 114 Opinions You don't need to spend $250+ per night for top notch beachfront lodging in pricey Sanibel. For $130...
5 Reviews the lazy flamingo is a casual "key west" style restaurant and bar in sanibel. they specialize in local sea food and casual american fare. good food moderately priced. their shrimp dishes were quite good.
4 Reviews Great setting. You can smell the water. (You decide if that is good or bad.) Most items are fried. The grouper sandwich is popular, but I'm not fond of it. You can't go wrong with a burger and a beer. Service is solid in a diner sort of way. Prices reflect the location.
1 Review This restaurant came highly recommended to us by Bob, (AKA) tropicdiver. He is an expert on this area, if you are going here, please check out his pages. As it turns out, he is also an expert in good food, his favorite eating spots, became ours too! This is deffinately a tripple threat restaurant!...
2 Reviews In a lot of beach towns, (and I mean A LOT), the beach closes at 11:00pm, and you are not allowed back on it until dawn. In Sanibel, most of the accomidations are walking distance to the beach, and a quiet deserted beach. A quiet, moonlit walk on beach can be had here!
4 Reviews Rental rates at Hertz, Avis, Budget et al were sky high this year (Christmas season) and opted instead to use Double D. Very impressed by this limo/taxi service. The rates were very reasonable, drivers pleasant, Lincolns clean. All in all a very positive experience with this Sanibel Island based...
1 Review It's pretty hard to get lost as this is a small island with a few well-marked main roads. Okay, so we did go around in circles a few times, but we weren't paying attention! The main roads across are Periwinkle Way, which you come onto as you leave the causeway (really long bridge). You'll run into...
8 Reviews This shop is quirky with a large range of item prices for the unpretentious shopper, someone interested in different things from the past. It has more vintage and country store and home goods than just decorative overpriced stuff you often find in antique shops. I found particularly interesting the...
2 Reviews NO LIVE SHELLING!!! Collecting shells in Sanibel is great fun, and the place is famous for this activity. Live shelling is illegal, and you can be jailed and or fined $500.00 for rape and pillage of local wild life, and rightly so. Enjoy collecting the dead shells, and throw the live ones back!...
8 Reviews For 6 out of our 7 day stay, we experienced afternoon thunderstorms. These storms usually ended within an hour, the longest lasted about 2 hours. You could see the clouds building each afternoon, and if you're on the water, you can see exactly where the rain is, and which direction it is heading!
3 Reviews Mosquito Repellent if you go out at night. Sunblock for day, are must have's! Water Shoes, once in the water it is pretty soft, but getting there is...ouch...ohh....ouch...ohh. Load 'em if you got 'em! Screen House, Box for food, lots 'o wild life
2 Reviews The wildlife refuge is a protected area for snakes, alligators, bald eagles and falcons. Unfortunately, I didn't see any while there. I spent a bit of time wandering around the refuge and reading the exhibits at the visitor's center. There are a couple of trails in the area, including one which...
1 Review There's a few marina's on Captiva which all rent out small watercraft that are easy to handle. That way you can get away from the crowds within 20 minutes and do some secluded shelling north of Captiva, snorkel around Cabbage Key or just go for that all over tan!! They'll provide easy to follow maps...
5 Reviews Looks like the area just over the causeway to the island is a great windsurf and kite surfing spot. Lots of wind coming through and an easily approached area for setting up right at the beach's edge. Just pull over and surf. Bring your gear though, there's no rental spots there.
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1 Review Okay, so maybe I'm crazy, but I managed to visit Universal Studios Islands of Adventures and the Everglades in the three days we had in Sanibel. We also visited the J Ding Wild life refuge that is on Sanibel, which has lots of birds and we did see one alligator as we drove through. It has a nice...
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I honestly didn't even want to do this page. I have been around the world, Guam, Hawaii, Mexico, all 50 states in fact, Canada at least 3 times, and even to Key West and Jamaica, and I have never...
9/21/04 post-Charley update Sanibel is open again for business, per the locals, just check with the particular places you intended to visit - good news! From details given in local newspapers, damage...
sanibel and captiva island are barrier islands off the coast of fort myers florida. sanibel island had a native-american population dating back 2500 years ago. the calusa native-american tribe had...
As a reward for going down to Florida in the middle of the sultry summer to help pack up my grandma and move her back up north, my parents took me to Sanibel Island. They know I love nature and this...
Sanibel is and Island off the west coast of Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. It's a relaxing island town. There's not much nightlife here but it is a good place to go to get away from it all and enjoy...
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