Sanibel Island

A tiny ocean organism called rust tide has been spotted in the waters off Southwest Florida and while rare it looks like red tide and can cause massive fish kills

Motorists who drive the Sanibel Causeway, Cape Coral Bridge or Midpoint Bridge are being reminded to use caution in the coming weeks as workers at toll plazas sited along the three spans conduct necessary technological equipment upgrades.

A public workshop updating plans for the permanent replacement of the Sanibel Fishing Pier at Lighthouse Beach Park will be at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 15, at MacKenzie Hall in the Sanibel City Hall.

This year’s loggerhead nesting season on Sanibel and Captiva islands continues in full swing. With several more weeks left, if another hundred or so nests are dug, the record from three years ago will fall.

The Florida Department of Health in Lee County is lifting the advisory for high bacterial levels at the Sanibel Causeway.

Nesting season began a little over six weeks ago, and this week marks NOAA’s official Sea Turtle Week. The most recent Southwest Florida numbers available are from, roughly, the end of the first week of June, and they are about the same as this time last year.

Intermittent closures of portions of the Lighthouse Beach Park Fishing Pier parking lot will be made over the next several weeks as Hurricane Ian recovery improvements are completed.

‘Love Sanibel Back’ returns June 1 with a focus on local connection.

The annual Taste of the Islands brings food and an opportunity to support wildlife care on Sanibel.

Lee Commissioners approved two measures Tuesday to restore popular coastal areas: $245K to rebuild and landscape a beach dune and commit $2.1M to a Sanibel fishing pier. Commissioners also awarded a contract to provide construction engineering and inspection services on four disaster recovery projects that include work on Pine Island, Iona, Harlem Heights, San Carlos Park and more.