Sanibel Island

Travel Blogs from Sanibel Island, United States

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Beaching and Shelling and Beaching..., Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Beaching and Shelling and Beaching...

A travel blog entry by olih

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Der Tag beginnt früh auf Sanibel Island. Die ersten Muschelsammler sind schon vor Sonnenaufgang am Strand. Da sind wir natürlich direkt dabei und werden mit einem herrlichen Morgen belohnt. Und jeder Menge Muscheln. Nach dem morgendlichen ...

Man, this is tough duty..., Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Man, this is tough duty...

A travel blog entry by colinandsarah

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... too hot for shopping! (Imagine that! Who'd have thought it was too hot in southern Florida in July!) We got back on the island and went straight to Pinocchio's Italian ice-cream and thoroughly enjoyed it! Then we had burgers at a fun place and now we're ...

Bye Disney, Hello Shells!, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Bye Disney, Hello Shells!

A travel blog entry by jmburton

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We helped to break camp and then said goodbye to the grandparents.  The girls and I then took a rainy drive to Sanibel Island...one of the best shelling beaches in the world! We got right into our suits and headed to the beach.  We picked up a ...

Auf den Spuren von Ding Darling, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Auf den Spuren von Ding Darling

A travel blog entry by olih

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... noch ein kleiner Spaziergang am herrlichen Bowman's Beach. Sogar mit einem (wenn auch kurzen) Sonnenuntergang. Die Strände von Sanibel Island haben uns so gut gefallen, dass wir beschließen, hier die Woche noch eine weitere Übernachtung einzuplanen ...

Paradise Found: Sanibel Island, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Paradise Found: Sanibel Island

A travel blog entry by olih

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... - herrlich! Pelikane sind unsere einzigen Begleiter am endlos scheinenden Strand. Abends genießen wir Wein und ein eiskaltes Key West Sunset Ale auf dem Balkon. Lässt sich aushalten hier - trotz Regen. Hotel: Sanibel Inn, 152$ Gefahrene Meilen: ...

Life is good., Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Life is good.

A travel blog entry by colinandsarah

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... , napped, that sort of thing. We did get around enough to get cleaned up and go out to the nice Italian place on the island. I had a cheesy, garlicy chicken thing; Sarah had some sort of bait stuffed with some other kind of bait. I've long believed that ...

More morning shelling, then head home., Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

More morning shelling, then head home.

A travel blog entry by jmburton

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We ate breakfast at the hotel restaurant, Courtney's, then checked out.  We drove to one of the public beach access areas and headed out to do some more shelling.  We found more treasures!  The girls went out at first in just shorts, but ...

Back on the Island, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Back on the Island

A travel blog entry by olih

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... im Panther Refuge, auch da nix los, also ab auf die I-75 Richtung Fort Myers. Kurz vor der Brücke nach Sanibel Island stoppen wir noch bei den Tanger Outlets und erstehen ein paar sehr günstige Kleinigkeiten. Hier öffnet dann auch der Himmel seine ...

We have arrived!, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

We have arrived!

A travel blog entry by colinandsarah

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... the new places we want to eat on-island.      This is the coolest place ever! Great hotels, beautiful scenery, good food, and great company! All of the restaurants on the island are family run places with good people, fun fun ...

Miami to Sanibel Island, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Miami to Sanibel Island

A travel blog entry by alohagypsies

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... didn't really see too much of the island or its beaches, but mostly spent time with family which was our purpose to coming to Sanibel Island.   Note to my mom Anne: JoAnne tried to email you over this past year and she doesn't think you are ...

Shelling at Sanibel, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Shelling at Sanibel

A travel blog entry by lgthib

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We got up early today and drove to Sanibel Island. For those who haven't been there, Sanibel & Captiva Islands on the Gulf of Mexico have some of the nicest beaches around, and Sanibel is known for fantastic shelling. While walking over the ...

Sanibel Shells, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Sanibel Shells

A travel blog entry by 9lives

... a little and liked them both. One of the guide books classified them as "slow and swanky". Walked on Bowman's Beach, Sanibel late afternoon and drove up to Captiva where there are beautiful homes. Seemed too busy again here yesterday - traffic ...

A Day at

A Day at "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge

A travel blog entry by pykesonthego

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... day in Florida before returning to Boston and winter...so we put the top down on the car and headed across the Sanibel Causeway to Sanibel Island, hoping to catch a tram tour of  J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, in the Gulf of ...

Muschelstrand, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Muschelstrand

A travel blog entry by kseto2012

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... Norden zu fahren, da dort das Wetter besser zu sein scheint. Einer der Punkte auf unserer Liste ist der Muschelstrand von Sanibel Island. Wir fahren mit unserem schicken neuen Fahrzeug über die Interstate durch  weites Sumpfland. In Naples essen wir ...

She Sells Seashells, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

She Sells Seashells

A travel blog entry by tmodeeplus3

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... Izzy).  Of course I had to get some yummy strawberries too! There are so many things I could say about our arrival on Sanibel Island, I will try to paint the perfect picture.  The drive onto the island is beautiful.  You go over a large, ...

Sanibel Island, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Sanibel Island

A travel blog entry by tandtadventures

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Seashell collecting was top priority for our daughter on this holiday and Sanibel Island is known as one of the best places for seashells.  There is a toll booth on the bridge to Sanibel Island a cost of $6.00 per car for the day and parking on ...

Sanibel Island, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Sanibel Island

A travel blog entry by jakoeplin

I visited Justin and his wonderful family at their beach house on the island. They are right across the street from the beach and they have a canal that runs rehind the back of the house, where the boats are. ...

I had covered 2484 kilometres over the ..., Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

I had covered 2484 kilometres over the ...

A travel blog entry by bradleyt

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... giant palm trees lining a boulevard anywhere. The homes along this stretch are nothing to sneeze at either. I took a chance that Sanibel Island would be worth the three bucks it costs to us the causeway. Money well invested. The causeway runs along ...

Day Twenty-four, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Day Twenty-four

A travel blog entry by lgrubbs

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Left Marco Island at 8 this morning headed offshore again.  We made it to Sanibel Island by 1.  This is one of the nicer marinas we've been to.  They advertise that they will bring warm blueberry muffins and a newspaper to our boat in the ...

Beautiful Beaches, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Beautiful Beaches

A travel blog entry by noalarmclocks

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... ; I'd like to see how they move these fragile, gigantic pieces! From Naples, we travelled north, past Fort Myers, to the island of Sanibel to check out their famous beaches.  They are know for the vast number of shells that wash up on the ...

From Seashells to birthdays, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

From Seashells to birthdays

A travel blog entry by tisch

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Tuesday,  February 16,  2010,  Sanibel Island Correction on previous entry. The water for our manatee swim was 72 degrees Fahrenheit,  not Celsius.  We wouldn’t  be alive to write this if it were. Thanks Immanuel! ...

Sanibel Island, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Sanibel Island

A travel blog entry by wrodar

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Plan na dziś był bardzo prosty. Za namowa Billa udalismy się na calodniowa wycieczke na Sanibel Island oddalona od naszego miasta o kilkanascie mil. Jest ona przedstawiana jako tropikalna wyspa posiadajaca piekne, piaszczyste plaze, ...

ISWC 2003, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

ISWC 2003

A travel blog entry by phan69

ISWC  ...

Sundial, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Sundial

A travel blog entry by thebjwilliams

Back to the good spot in ...

Sanibel Island, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Sanibel Island

A travel blog entry by pema80

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... Mietwagen abgeholt und sind ins Hotel gefahren wo wir um ca. 02:15 müde ins Bett fielen. Heute sind wir nach Sanibel Island, einer kleinen Insel an der Golfküste Floridas, gefahren. Man erreicht die Insel nur über eine gebührenpflichtige Strasse, ...

There's a whole lot of water around here!, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

There's a whole lot of water around here!

A travel blog entry by spongebobsquad

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... as per the New Model Army song, it starts to count the UK as one instead just to make up the numbers. Sanibel, is as it's name implies, is an Island but only by a meter or so above sea level. When we went to the Maldives I remember wondering how long ...

Day Twenty-Five, Sanibel Island, United States travel blog

Day Twenty-Five

A travel blog entry by lgrubbs

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... which has not been spoiled by beachfront condos...very quaint.  We stopped off to swim in the ocean and collect shells.  Sanibel Island is famous for the shells one can find.  Had lunch at the Island Cow, and, despite the funky name, ...

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