Even when it stormed on the island, you knew it wouldn’t last long and there would be eternal summer again. Once you set foot on Sanibel Island, you had to change, as the island would not ...

Jerry’s isn’t alone. On Tuesday, city officials announced that the Sanibel Recreation ... right in and said I need some shirts.” Gasparilla Island State Park reopened in Lee County ...

As recently as one year ago, there was little open on the island – just a handful of places to stay and a few restaurants.

Residents of Florida’s Sanibel Island – which ... storm at their friends’ house on the island. They were securing homes for neighbors who weren’t on the island, and by the time they ...

On Sanibel, it shelters mangrove forests, marshes and seagrass beds, as well as animals like alligators, bobcats and more than 240 species of birds. In fact, for herons, white pelicans , warblers ...

just can’t even understand the damage that we’ve experienced.” Sanibel, home to about 6,300 people, is located on Sanibel Island off the west coast of Florida, just south of Fort Myers.

Sanibel Island is twelve miles long, three miles at its widest, and peaks around four feet above sea level. It’s a barrier island, which is to say that it sits entirely on shifting sands, three ...