Ft. Myers Municipal Yacht Basin

Caloosahatchee River District

Week 1

A visit from Ingrid!

What a great opportunity to catch up with Lady Bowers.  With such a full week, we hardly had time to catch our breathe.

We cruised and anchored at Cayo Costa for the night. We dinghied to the island and walked a mile to the beach to do some shelling. Very relaxing.

Kayaked Bunche Beach Preserve in San Carlos Bay through the mangrove caves.  Hidden among it's many branches are small crabs from the size of a quarter up to a half dollar.  Reminded us of spiders. 

One of the many mangrove caves.

We also visited the Edison & Ford winter estates. They were neighbors and had winter homes in Ft. Myers and were friends along with Harvey Firestone. Thomas Edison loved southwest Florida and said it best (in 1914):  There are over 100 million people in the United States but only one Fort Myers, the flower city of tropical Florida.

Enjoying one of Mina Edison's gardens

On the weekend, Ft. Myers annual Arts Festival was held out our back door in the Caloosahatchee River District.

David Black's Fire Dance found in Centennial Park