Sunday, June 21, 2009

Sanibel/Captiva Island

We will soon be joining the Clusiau family down at Sanibel and Captiva Islands.  They are renting a beach house there and generously invited us to join them.  They often vacation here in the summer and it will be a first trip for us.  These islands are famous for their shells and are the top shelling beach in the US and top 3 in the world.  I predict I will be hooked on shelling.
Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh had a vacation home on Captiva that no longer exists.  She wrote Gift From the Sea from this location.
The house is located on Captiva Island which is just past Sanibel.  The islands are on the southwest coast of Florida north of Naples about one hour.
We'll be taking a dolphin cruise on the Sanibel Thriller.

"The beach is not the place to work, to read, write or think."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

2 comments:

Danette Fettig Halloran said...

Can't wait to see photos of your trip!

Deanna Bland Hiott PhD, MSN, RN said...

Thank you for the mini-vacation!!! Also, I love Gifts From the Sea!