It's been 2 1/2-plus years since these island restaurants closed from damage sustained in Hurricane Ian. And oh, how they've ...

Not surprisingly, significant numbers of people are going on social media every day and asking questions about places in Southwest Florida like Sanibel Island, Fort Myers Beach and Pine Island.

When The Sanibel ... restaurants!) on Sanibel and Captiva. “We have literally put the status of Sanibel and Captiva businesses at your fingertips — whether they’ve reopened on-island or ...

SANIBEL ISLAND, Florida – We biked ... Wildlife Refuge is still predominantly brown and a few of our favorite restaurants have yet to reopen. Even so, my kids and I agreed: Sanibel is still ...

some restaurants are back, but certainly not all. Several of our favorites are gone, others have adapted. Wickies Lighthouse Restaurant on Sanibel Island, Florida. One of the newest is Wickies ...

Sanibel Island residents on Wednesday were crossing the causeway for the first time since Hurricane Ian damaged the only road onto the popular Gulf Coast destination. “The causeway is our ...

Sanibel, Pine Island, Matlacha, Captiva and North Captiva in an attempt to quantify which restaurants were lost, which are still standing, and which may one day be resurrected. Where possible ...

Residents of Florida’s Sanibel Island – which remains cutoff from ... “All our gift stores and restaurants and everything, they’ve lost all their inventory. It’s hundreds of thousands ...

Along the main road, Periwinkle Way, there are locally-owned boutiques, craft stores and restaurants ... out on Sanibel Island, according to the SanCap Chamber of Commerce. The Florida folklore ...

That’s just one of the many tips I learned from my animal-obsessed mother during our nearly 15 trips to Sanibel, a 33-square-mile barrier island off Florida’s southwest coast. We’d spend ...