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We visited both Sanibel and Captiva Islands today, the two low lying islands being connected by a short causeway. Sanibel is home to the Ding Darling Nature Reserve, where a wide variety of birds can be seen due to the abundance of fish and mollusks found in the shallow flats, the main source of food for most of the birds in this area. We saw a great variety, both indigenous and migratory northern birds who spend the winter in the south. We drove through the Reserve in the morning, had lunch on Captiva Island, and returned to the Reserve in the afternoon for a tour with a well informed ranger from the Park Service.

Great Blue Heron (center)

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Osprey on alert

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Osprey nest

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Little LIzard

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Little LIzard

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Sanibel Island Light

The Sanibel Island Light or Point Ybel Light[2] is the first lighthouse on Florida's Gulf coast north of Key West and the Dry Tortugas. It is located on the eastern tip of Sanibel Island, and was built to mark the entrance to San Carlos Bay for ships calling at the port of Punta Rassa, across San Carlos Bay from Sanibel Island. Residents of Sanibel Island first petitioned for a lighthouse in 1833, but no action was taken. In 1856 the Lighthouse Board recommended a lighthouse on Sanibel Island, but Congress took no action. In 1877 government workers surveyed the eastern end of the island and reserved it for a lighthouse. Congress finally appropriated funds for a lighthouse in 1883. The foundation for the new lighthouse was completed in early 1884, but the ship bringing ironwork for the tower sank two miles (3 km) from Sanibel Island. A crew of hard-hat divers from Key West recovered all but two of the pieces for the tower and ultimately it was built.
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Lighthouse keeper's cottage-Sanibel Island Light

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Dune foliage on Sanibel Island

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