Before we got to Fort Meyers, we spend two nights on Sanibel Island. Sanibel is just off the coast of Fort Meyers beach, and is roughly 33 square miles. It's known mainly for the thousands of beautiful shells that wash up onto its beaches every day. At low tide, you can find hundreds of people combing the shore for all different types of shells, including conch, clam, snail, and mussel. Here are a few beauties I found on our first night.
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| Low tide was at 8:15 PM when we were there, so the lighting was not great. Also, these are all iPhone photos. I briefly misplaced my camera lens cap, and didn't want to risk damaging the lens, so I left the camera in the RV during our time in Sanibel. |
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| Josh hunting for shells. |
On our only full day on the island, we decided to visit the JN "Ding" Darling National Wildlife preserve, hoping to see some cool animals. We took the Love Bug all throughout the preserve and noticed that the other visitors all had fishing poles and coolers full of ice. I think the powers that be meant to name it the "JN Darling National Fishing Park", but the brochures got misprinted at Kinkos, so they decided to roll with "wildlife preserve" instead. Seriously, though, what the hell kind of wildlife preserve lets you hunt the animals?
Besides the other visitors, the only wildlife we saw was one raccoon.
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| None of you are safe! |
After the raccoon preserve, we took the Love Bug to a different beach on the other side of the island, where we found more beautiful shells.
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| Shells on shells on shells. |
We finished the day at a great Italian restaurant across the street from our RV resort called Matzaluna. All in all, our little mini trip to Sanibel was nice, albeit kind of boring. Instead of going back, I think I'd prefer to spend more time in Naples.
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