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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Useppa Island

So Liz's dad is now a member of the Useppa Island Club. It's a very small private island with multimillion dollar "cottages" and an upscale B n B. He docks his Sea Ray there weeks at a time.

Useppa is north of Sanibel and Captiva, almost at Boca Grande. It's in, I believe Pine Island Sound.

We took the ferry over from Key West lite Pine Island. We, of course, brought our one man inflatable. It's a very natural area right on the intracoastal with only a few barrier island separating from the the Gulf of Mexico. Mangrove islands abound. Saw jellyfish (Liz got stung while cleaning her dad's boat hull), dolphins (at one point they played in the boat's wake), pelicans, gopher tortoises, and just a ton of birds.

I got two short paddles in - it was just too hot. But we did take the dinghy out to Cabbage Key and Cayo Costa state park.