BIG ARTS Summer Camp

If your family is headed to Sanibel Island this summer, be sure to check out the ever-popular Summer Arts Camp at BIG ARTS!

BIG ARTS Summer Arts Camp offers a fun, unique and well-rounded program of visual and performing arts for 1st – 5th graders.

Each week begins a new session with a new theme. Throughout the week, campers create art projects that correspond with that week’s theme,  » Read more

Rosy Tomorrows

Perhaps not the photo you were expecting to see today?

We just wanted to remind you that your vacation to Southwest Florida doesn’t have to be all about our gorgeous coastline.  There are so many interesting places to visit in the region and all are easy day trips from Ocean’s Reach.

On your next visit down, for example, you may want to check out Rosy Tomorrows Heritage Farm and learn all about sustainable farming.  » Read more

Islands Night

 

It’s time for peanuts and crackerjacks and good times with island friends!

Join us tomorrow night when we commemorate the 25th anniversary of one of Sanibel’s most beloved traditions:  Sam Bailey’s Islands Night at Hammond Stadium.

Islands Night began in 1993 by beloved islander Sam Bailey as a way to celebrate the special community we have on Sanibel and Captiva.  It’s become a night for us to kick back and enjoy a baseball game with friends,  » Read more

Dollar for Dollar

First-time visitors Mary C. and Andy P. from Natick, MA, were kind enough to send along this photo of some “baby” sand dollars they found in the waters in front of Ocean’s Reach (before gently returning them back to the sea).

They were thrilled with their visit here and the opportunity to learn so much about our incredible sealife.

And sand dollars are indeed quite incredible.   » Read more

Derby Day!

And down the stretch they come!

Enjoy “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports” at Fort Myers’ inaugural “Down & Derby” party from 3:00 – 7:00pm today on the back lawn of the historic Heitman House along the beautiful Caloosahatchee River.

Hosted by HelloSWFL, this Kentucky Derby-themed party and social event should be just the right mix of fun and flair, with stellar fashion,  » Read more

A Slice of Old Florida

 

It’s been described as “one of the last vestiges of how it used to be” on Captiva Island.

Jensen’s Twin Palm Cottages & Marina Resort looks like it jumped off a postcard depicting historic Old Florida.  Featuring small wooden cottages along the waterfront, tiki huts scattered about, and a marina with longtime, knowledgeable boat captains, Jensen’s has long been considered a Captiva institution.

The first cottage was built on the property in 1928.  » Read more

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