40 46 features TWO DAYS IN THE GLADES Start with a swamp-buggy tour, do little fly-fishing, camp out under chickee, and indulge in the regions specialty--stone crabs. It all adds up to perfect sampling of Everglades. HOOKED ON FISHING LOCATION MATTERS A national analysis 50 states places Florida as fifthbest fishing destination. Some would ask, Why not higher But agree its an anglers paradise. 54 TRIP AROUND FRENCH POLYNESIA If wanderlust bites you, theres no better place travel than French Polynesia. This beautiful stretch islands South Pacific beckons snorkelers divers crystal waters abundance marine life. 60 AFRICAN ODYSSEY wildlife safari is on many bucket list. Take tour through lens author for view East Southern Africa celebrate incredible animals. SPECIAL SECTION On, Below, at Water 66 Set Sail Adventure Offshore Sailing School 68 Dive In Artificial Reefs Lee County 72 Caribbean Escape Turks Caicos COVER Southwest blessed have Audubons Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary midst. 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Times Islands, RSW LIVING, MAIN, Bonita Estero Cape Coral Living ISSN 1521-1207 published six times year TOTI Media, Inc., Sanibel, 33957. Subscription price 24.00 one-year domestic subscription. Copyright Inc. All rights reserved. No part publication may be reproduced without written permission publisher. Opinions expressed contributors necessarily Footprints Kindness Leaving trails snow, sand, hearts H Group Publisher, Media PHOTO COURTESY OF MEDIA, INC. igh season has reached us Florida--a time when again welcome part-time residents visitors from over world our treasured coastal sanctuary. Without doubt, understand why people love coming gulf beaches. footprints sand feels leaving snow. I enjoy seeing along beach because each one tells story journey. fast, others slow. You can tell spacing between prints--the persons stride. There runners, walkers, even crawlers, they leave trail represents came edge. Next walk stop after while look back own footprints. What does say journey unique see youve left. We cant other places. neighborhoods, but paths often hard--cement, asphalt, gravel. where weve stopped chat neighbor, left sidewalk give someone hand, or waited passing car cyclist offering friendly wave. signs were there... except kindness. my last publishers letter, wrote how true happiness fleeting. lasts, experienced now. also overflows truly happy person who leaves kindness behind. Unlike snow soon melt away, get washed away changing tides, forever. Knowing this, shouldnt try incorporate simple acts into daily lives golden rule Treat want them treat you. That universal application appeal, matter live. Would like healing across troubled divided nation ours And Im convinced showing will happen. others. start homes, school, work, volunteer time. Maybe simply inviting go walk. might surprised spending together nature clearly. both back, just able long follow. should especially thankful kindnesses bestowed every health-care professional, staying strong helping weather crisis these past two years. personal thank dear friend, Paul Denis Kuehner, passed January 27, 2022. Kuehner served community dedication Enjoy favorite magazine consider life takes forms--from respecting around African Odyssey, 60, Trip Around Polynesia, appreciating it yard Coastal, 22. As always, hearing feedback, sure connect social media channels. something kind yourself today BY ANN MARIE OPHELAN ecotour full appreciation areas natural beauty enough great pictures yet always respectful never touching, learning manatees. UPCOMING EVENT OPhelan resident regular contributor Media. 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Blair Store, bird-friendly gardens, serves gateway sanctuarys world-famous 2.25-mile boardwalk. boardwalk meanders pine flatwood, wet prairie, marsh, finally largest oldgrowth forest remaining America. Impressive trees, cypresses relatives redwood, towering 130 feet sky girths 25 feet. Their massive branches draped mosses, bromeliads, ferns, orchids. variety songbirds, raptors throughout Ancient 1954, tower sky. 19 2.25-mile-long, famous Wilson communications associate Florida. graduate University certified instructor program, she lived 1986. open timed admissions a.m. p.m. Preregistration required visit attend experiences birding walks, sunset strolls, night Guided limited several per month. 20 DAVID KORTE painted bunting winter visitors. sight, available turn trail. With small staff volunteers, mission preserve support conservation restoration ecosystems western Staff members use science-driven management wildlife, people. Visiting scientists school habitat living repository, near far rely lush, green space opportunity rest overstimulated brains, sit zen. relies donations support. Pileated woodpeckers, heard seen, leafy canopy. 375 Road West, Naples 239-348-9151 corkscrew.audubon.org Gulfcoast Zeitgeist DR. RANDALL NIEHOFF When smaller bigger To island somehow acknowledge salute small, isolate, humble question whim mercy sea, which serious argument, being patient obdurate rock... Islands owned loaned us, brave temporary. --Brian Doyle, On Islandness, Yankee Magazine, 2020 L eaving behind mainland coast Florida, climbs Causeway sparkling, restless Mexico. From birds-eye perspective, down gorgeous--like seascape hand artist. Before leading road ahead safely low-lying bridges bound steelmounted concrete man-made buttressed carefully positioned rock jetties--feats engineering created human beings. seafaring tempted prideful conceit think ocean underneath, control, understood. Think again. Seventy-one percent earths surface covered ocean. Its reflect nitrogen-induced color atmosphere, astronauts refer globe blue marble. average depth 2.4 deepest section 6.8 miles. Dry less third planets space. Such territory things continents seem sticking water. evolved 3 billion years creatures crawled ashore began develop. Still 200,000 known estimated million undiscovered. beating heart planet huge heat reservoir, influencing climate patterns, carbon cycles. behold wonder coastal, bridge list statistical facts awed thats needed still notice--and inspired feelings enjoyment pleasure. Author Toni Morrison reminds worlds becomes enough. photograph, paint remember Yet second movement symphony awe. After initial surprise fascination evoked encounter prompted what freshly perceived. First, dawns attentive mind comparison mighty Second, here keenly aware tenuous perch hurricanes rage. 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Curly-haired shoppers stateside Target ERIK ENTWISTLE Hong Kong orchid tree grows fast flowering season. rewards plentiful blooms mong numerous fast-growing botanical name Bauhinia blakeana undoubtedly outstanding. familiar sight driving roads, extensively planted median strips large stunning display. landscape, featured specimen rows screening. itself fascinating. implies, identified 1880 sterile hybrid parent bauhinia purpurea variegata native itself. extensive propagation cuttings grafting, associated Kong, flower citys official symbol, design appears flag replaced previous China regained sovereignty July 1, 1997. did plant property. Then hurricane Irma September 2017 felled number olive fence replaced. goal quickly reestablish- ing privacy screen, decided row apart Less five taller house, having formed evergreen wall November March. producing orchid, win- Even though area, invasive threat, huge, pinkish-purple, orchid-like flowers attract pollinators. ning well. mentioned earlier orchidlike Preferring sun well-drained soil, drought-tolerant bothered pests. spent mess underneath tree, seems fair tradeoff lengthy flowers. planting, site carefully, fill size single mature 20-40 height width. produce suckers periodic pruning, send shoots directions, requiring minor trimming order avoid unkempt look. monitor trunk development direction growth, prune accordingly shape desire. fortunate generous, middle big, bold blossoms months end. Pianist, instructor, musicologist Entwistle teaches Sanibel. He writes Stay Tuned column hobby vegetables fruit using sustainable gardening methods. 27 Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo performs Point t said heads one, comes piano, four hands returns recital Points Tribby Arts Center, audience hear concert outstanding piano duet discover creativity possible engaging genre. Music surged popularity 19th century instrument choice among educated, amateur musicians flourished. Beethoven concert, example, work friend member four-hand transcription. Numerous original appeared satisfy demand, designed informal performance composers Franz Schubert 17971828 writing challenging, large-scale duets musical potential pieces. New England-based Pinkas-Hirsch Sally Pinkas Evan Hirsch, acclaimed soloists right, mastered art playing. happen husband wife, extra dimension connectivity enhances partnership well-suited intimate genres. Hirsch upcoming program Schuberts Fantasy Minor 1828, Rachmaninoffs Six Pieces 1894, Milhauds La Cration du Monde 1923. Rachmaninoff his Milhaud turned 31 composing works. For death later went compose another half century. spoke whom studied Dartmouth 1980s duo selections chosen perform. Fantasy, widely considered greatest works, last. movements played pause encapsulate deeply SUSAN emotional, complex, dark describes it, fantasy, movements--motivic connections--and thought abstract piece music. play little, reticent, classical piece. actually harbinger romanticism, heartfelt. fully characteristic set guaranteed please. interesting Rachmaninoff, Sally, switch positions. Whereas pieces, plays top keyboard bass part, reversed. controls. tend pedal Evan, case nicely, notes. theyre remarkably orchestral texture. Theyre beautiful, nice group. transcription jazz-inspired ballet folk mythology, composer himself described making wholesale jazz convey purely feeling. observes, couple fugues--they beastly trying voices. movements, operatic music weaves storyline. married professionally 29 youre playing same instrument, exposing. come terms similar styles are, different. --Sally read explains Sally. stubborn thickheaded. trick ask nicely... am improvisatory, set. So he become flexible, bit reliable, adds. play, personality another. now, Thats chamber reach modus vivendi. people, fact means dinner rehearsal continue looking forward presenting friends companions, grow, else, light shed other. Schubert, Monday, 21, 7 p.m., Point. ErikEntwistlereceived undergraduate degree College. earned postgraduate Washington St. Louis doctorate musicology California, Santa Barbara. Island. GINA BIRCH HAT Protect wind stylish hat wont flat. 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Produced added sweeteners essence Watermelon Tangerine, Lemon, Pineapple Blackberry. 12-pack, drinkbriva.com 34 Mixed-media artist captures colors rtist got her underwater child Cayuga Lake Ithaca, York. Her father, scuba diver, built videocamera enclosures. pre-GoPro, waterproof cameras capture images took impressed daughter impacted artwork. moved fell below Today mixed-media artwork focuses depictions Based Coral, herself artist, enthusiast, lover, getting clothes. series wood, calls Timber Art. Wood surface, subject, Morrison. Art piece, starts plank, cuts carves paints layers color. whimsical, colorful, fun, realism creature captured. if bright orange flattened caps hand-made glass beads eyes, clear barracuda grouper. Bridget Barracuda, masonry nails teeth, glass-bead eye. names turtle Mike, purple named scuba-diving loved adventures. Sunset Sue, grouper scene, loves Noah Christy Morrisons son daughter-in-law. couple, together, range 44-350 collectors, inhabit canvas 1. Sue super makes, measuring Acrylic wood. 2. photographs night. pine, measures 9 inches. cap 3. Jackie Blu collectors. 4. Mike memory dad, dive. beads. KELLY MORRISON jewelry line--both Floridas tropical surroundings. galleries, Tower Gallery Bokeelia Harbour View Coral. wooden ArtworksbyKelly.etsy.com, Instagram, artworks_by_kelly. GALLERY INFO 751 239-472-4557 towergallery.net 14830 Drive, 239-472-2772 2islandsgallery.com 8315 Main Street, 239-738-5280 bokeeliaartgallery.com 5789 104, 239-540-5789 harbourviewgallery.com MORE 239-848-8121 artworksbykelly.com 5. Dont intimidated teeth. 37 Artist McArdle brings arol uncanny ability embellish brilliant blues, pinks, greens. shoreline, oils acrylics. reference, taken state parks, preserves, areas. transforms real-life paintings subjects. Born Jamaica raised Bristol, England, bills Artist, dreamed moving 1995, thrived environment. myself surrounded saturated vibrancy diverse creative interest grew, motivated study subjects re-create canvas. researches subjects, camera. Next, plans compositions slowly studio. Multiple reference used composition perspective. scenes, grapes mangrove but, unfortunately, beloved altered erosion development. Sticks Together, x scenes longer exist captured photographs. recall location depicted painting scenery recognize location, McArdle. Natural series, focused scenery, shorebirds intruded. subject right. McArdles bird nationally Rose Gold, mixed Sea Grape Embrace, ART IMAGES CAROL MCARDLE recognized greatly sought after. favorites, spoonbill, stands pink feathers confident poses. turtles recently photography reference. sells custom-ordered giclee prints Many giclees embellished, cross print. stretched original. capturing depth, usually cannot difference. 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HANSON 49 Dana Young, president CEO tourism agency, Visit declines comment pitches positives. State, Young abundant array accessible year-round, whether casting dock, beach, pier, geography, expertise community, U.S., worldrecord caught proud premier destination, reel, Likewise, Beirnes, executive Convention Bureau, hits highlights. spectacular incomparable shorelines, Paradise Coast Paddling ideal inland waters. Participants Ding Darling Doc Fords Tournament CHRIS TILLEY RIGHT LEFT Theres competition tournament. Fishng largemouth bass. Successful team 51 popular anglers. Powerboats necessary fishing--a specially WaveRunner too. 52 JARRETT JONES Charter client destination anglers, reef backcountry jewel Hamman, commissioner chairs Tourist Development Council, red carpet extends sport. Being terrific, comments. hosted kayak events Matlacha, Pineland, bringing out-of-area reporters. cite meetings writers groups county involvement Tournament. Meanwhile, glimpses survey 55 least 600 catch millions--yes, millions--of lakes explore, fishcation shore Refuge Surrounded Lakes, Michigan boasts longest derives Ojibwe michigama, meaning lake. inlets conducive total shorelines. rev engines seller powerboats. Look coral reefs, delicate ecosystem overfishing. Lytle retired editorial editor TV host Daily News. resides Bonita. 53 Polynesia WATER, WHALES, WANDERING SOUTH PACIFIC GLENN OSTLE Left Picturesque church Tahaa viewing Moorea Belvedere lookout diving coral. Dolphins frequently dives. occasion, dolphins close him. houghts mountains shimmering lagoons occupied partner, Pam Hadfield, Papeete, located Tahiti. ferry ride Moorea, larger Windward joined photographers snorkel whales. stuff legends. Frances sole overseas country, exotic atolls stretching 1,200 Pacific. 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