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29 Jul 2021
This past weekend, there have been three incidents in Southwest Florida in which five people have been seriously hurt by lightning strikes. One of them occurred on the beach near the Sanibel Beach Club off Nerita Street on Saturday afternoon (July 24). This probably most...
23 Jul 2021
Alligators...Coyotes...and...Toads?
Oh, my, yes! That's another creature you should be watching out for, especially when it comes to your pets' safety.
In recent years, Sanibel has had an increase in the number of cane toads (sometimes called Bufo toads). They are the largest actual toads...
1 Jul 2021
We’ve talked about some of the wildlife on Sanibel and Captiva…birds, alligators, panthers, and the vicious no-see-ums. One animal you might not expect to see in Florida, especially on the islands, is a coyote (typically a southeastern coyote). First thing you’ll think is, “How...
18 Jun 2021
When you can’t get to Sanibel to see wildlife (at least, not soon enough), we tend to search for videos. And we bet a lot of you watched a LOT of videos in 2020.
The “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society recognized this and decided to start...
8 May 2021
With the arrival of May, Sanibel and Captiva have entered the 2021 Sea Turtle Nesting Season! And we’re off to a great and EARLY start, as the first nest on Sanibel was found on the East end of the island on Tuesday, April 27. ...
15 Apr 2021
Spring is here and the wildlife is out there. One of the rarest sights on Sanibel is the Florida panther, which was seen last Sunday evening around 6pm in the Jamaica Drive/Tahiti Drive area off Sanibel-Captiva Road. The photos were taken from a bedroom window...
31 Mar 2021
Let's face it...last Easter was terrible. The islands were shut down, the beach accesses were closed (they even fenced the Causeway islands), and it was spooky quiet. The boss often said, “You could shoot a cannon down Periwinkle Way and not hit anything.” Almost everything...
19 Feb 2021
We often joke that Florida loves “Artic blasts,” “polar vortexes,” and “bomb cyclones.” It seems that the Sunshine State...