Top 15. Best Tourist Attractions in Sanibel Island - Florida
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Top 15. Best Tourist Attractions in Sanibel Island - Florida: J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel and Captiva Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center, The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, Sanibel Island Farmer's Market, Bowman's Beach, Sanibel Causeway, Blind Pass Beach, Sanibel Island Lighthouse, Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Sanibel Historical Museum and Village, Gulfside City Park Beach, Sanibel Moorings Botanical Gardens, Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation, Tarpon Bay Beach, Periwinkle Place
Erosion threatening part of Sanibel Captiva Road
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nest Inventory on Sanibel Island, Florida (July 10, 2019)
Three days after a nest hatches, sea turtle permittees excavate the nest and take an inventory of what was inside. Hatched shells, infertile eggs, dead embryos, dead hatchlings and live hatchlings stuck in the sand are all counted and recorded to assist with the state-wide monitoring of sea turtle populations.
This nest had a 91.8% hatch success. We found 4 live hatchlings, 0 dead hatchlings, and 158 hatched eggs! The four hatchlings were released.
I am honored and grateful to be a part of such an amazing crew of talented sea turtle warriors at Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation. Please consider adopting a nest at the link below.
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Things to Do on vacation in Fort Myers, Sanibel, and Captiva Island Florida
A short video about fun things to do on vacation in Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, and Captiva Island Florida.
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Sea turtle deaths rising on Sanibel and Captiva Islands
ᐸpᐳResearchers on Sanibel and Captiva Islands are seeing an alarming increase in sea turtle deaths a deadly consequence of the red tide washing up on our shores.ᐸ/pᐳ ᐸpᐳᐸ/pᐳ
Sea turtles washing up dead, sick on Sanibel and Captiva islands; possibly due to red tide
We're learning new information about how the red tide is affecting our marine life. The Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation says that since the beginning of the current red tide bloom in October 2017, 91 sea turtles have been found stranded on the beaches or in waters near Sanibel and Captiva.
Driving around Sanibel, Florida
Sanibel is a city in Lee County, Florida, United States, on Sanibel Island. The population was 6,469 at the 2010 census, with an estimated 2012 population of 6,741. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sanibel is a barrier island – a collection of sand on the leeward side of the more solid coral-rock of Pine Island.
The city incorporates the entire island, with most of the city proper at the east end of the island. After the Sanibel causeway was built to replace the ferry in May 1963, the residents asserted control over development by establishing the Sanibel Comprehensive Land Use Plan in 1974 helping to maintain a balance between development and preservation of the island's ecology.[4] A new, higher bridge, permitting passage without a bascule bridge (drawbridge) of tall boats and sailboats, was completed in late 2007.
Due to easy causeway access, Sanibel is a popular tourist destination known for its shell beaches and wildlife refuges. More than half of the island is made up of wildlife refuges, the largest being J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. The Island hosts the Sanibel Historical Village and a variety of other museums and theaters, as well as many non-profit organizations like the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, and the Sanibel Sea School.
Sea Turtle mass mortalities reported near Sanibel and Captiva islands
We're learning new information about how the red tide is affecting our marine life. The Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation says that since the beginning of the current red tide bloom in October 2017, 91 sea turtles have been found stranded on the beaches or in waters near Sanibel and Captiva.
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Loggerhead Turtle Release 1 - Sanibel Island 2019
Loggerhead Turtle Release 1 - Sanibel Island - Florida - June 18, 2019 #sccf #sanibelisland #florida #loggerheadturtle #sanibelcaptivaconservationfoundation
Blue-green algae is back on Sanibel
Scientists with the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation started noticing a hair-like, blue-green algae, known as lyngbya has been overgrowing for about a month now. It's covering the sea floor like carpet, all the way from Light House Point to Tarpon Bay. And they're not sure why it's back.
Kemp's Ridley sea turtle found on Sanibel Beach
The Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation found their first sea turtle nest of the season. The organization says they found a rare Kemp's ridley sea turtle nest on Sanibel Island.
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Sanibel Island, Florida. Billy's Rentals provides bicycle rentals for all ages. Explore the islands' beaches, shopping, and nature preserves.
Un/natural History: Drowning Captiva, 2014. Excerpt 1
Commissioned by Nuit Blanche, Toronto and Scotia Bank.
Filmed on the Florida island of Captiva, where artist Robert Rauschenberg lived from the sixties, George Bolster’s film shows the landscape that he bought and saved from developers, and his conservation efforts following a devastating hurricane: replanting and reclaiming jungle.
Serving as a microcosm/site/set the landscape represents three different time periods: Rauschenberg’s efforts symbolize the world changing optimism of the sixties, an attempt to establish rationalized moderation today in the face of the human race’s destructive evolution, and the sci-fi laws Bolster foresees coming into place to curb the damage.
The figure of Rauschenberg is represented through a reimagining of his Pelican (1963) performance as a durational walk from the bay side of Captiva to the Gulf of Mexico. The graceful dance in roller-skates of the original are replaced by an awkward protracted walk on a jungle dirt road representing our difference in state from that period in time to this.
Drawing on Darwinism and the idea that living through ritual, religion, and tradition; the human race is ceasing to adapt to the crises it faces. It proposes the hope for an escape from a poisoned planet through the embracing of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking’s idea of two earthlike planets, which we have yet to evolve the advanced technology to reach.
Addressing the affect of established cultural/belief systems and questioning received ideas of the afterlife that encourage a focus on the next world undermining any impetus to change behavior or adapt. The film functions as a call to all members of society to become active in issues around landscape and preservation.
Irish artist George Bolster lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe, the United States, and Canada. Bolster’s work has been featured in the book Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts by Sean Kissane, Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Noel Kelly, Director of Visual Arts Ireland. He has been awarded numerous grants from the Arts Council of Ireland, and Culture Ireland. Bolster also received a Grant for Artists Award from The Arts Council of England in 2008. In 2013, he was awarded a residency by the Rauschenberg Foundation, on Captiva Island in Florida, where he researched the beginnings of Rauschenberg’s environmental activism and his residency at NASA. His film on Rauschenberg’s endeavors on Captiva, and his involvement in (EAT) Experiments in Art and Technology are catalogued in Un/natural History: Drowning Captiva, which was commissioned by Nuit Blanche, Toronto in 2014. Bolster has been artist in residence at (SETI) The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute researching at NASA Ames, in collaboration with Montalvo Arts Center/Lucas Artists Residency Program since 2016, The archive of his residency projects and research will be held by Nevada Art Museum. The Moon McMoon's and the Moon Museum was first shown at New Museum (NUMU) Los Gatos, in 2016. He was recently awarded an Artist-in-Residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, France, where he will work on a new expanded film project in 2019. Bolster graduated with a BA(Hons) in Painting from Chelsea College of Art in London, England, and went on to graduate with an MA in Fine Art Film from Central Saint Martins College, London, England.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Amazement Insulates Us All, Memento Vivere, The Lab, Dublin, Ireland (2015); Un/natural History: Drowning Captiva, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada (2014); idealisms fail because humans have to live them, Monster Truck, Dublin (2013); High on Christ, Chung King Projects, Los Angeles, (2009); sociodesic: a space for the three great loves, Galway Art Centre, Ireland (2010); and Eye of the Needle, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin (2005). Group exhibitions include: In The Future, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2018); Making Contact: SETI Artists in Residence, New Museum (NUMU), Los Gatos, California (2016); Kenosis in the Supervoid, Station Independent, New York City (2016); Et si on s’était trompé?, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France (2015); Tulca: seachange, Galway, Ireland (2015); /seconds, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2014); These Days: Elegies for Modern Times, Mass MoCA, Massachusetts (2010); Irish Art Does Not Exist, Station Independent, New York City (2014); Flip, Chung King Projects, Los Angeles (2006); and EVA International, Limerick, Ireland (2005).
BVK - Beaches of Fort Myers / Sanibel - Still Pristine PSA
Public Service Announcement sponsored by The Beaches of Fort Myers & Sanibel. Our hearts go out to those affected by the Deep Horizon oil spill.
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A sea turtle hatching shows us that we are never alone, no matter how hard the road to safety is...Saturday morning on Sanibel. Just feet from my door...
Southeastern Florida is a major nesting site for Loggerhead Sea Turtles. From May to October, eggs are laid and hatchings appear after an average of 60 days. Sometimes a hatching does not emerge with its hundred or so siblings when the clutch literally boils out of the nest like a miniature volcano. This little one was found about two feet down in the sand by volunteers from the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation, which monitors nests on our barrier island. One hundred and ten eggs hatched in this nest, three were unfertilized, and this guy needed a little help to make it to the warm Gulf waters off of Sanibel Island. Remember if you visit the barrier island beaches to keep lighting at a minimum, and if you must shell at night, use a red light. The video will explain why.
George Bolster, Trailer for Un/natural History: Drowning Captiva, 2014.
Commissioned by Nuit Blanche, Toronto and Scotia Bank.
Filmed on the Florida island of Captiva, where artist Robert Rauschenberg lived from the sixties, George Bolster’s film shows the landscape that he bought and saved from developers, and his conservation efforts following a devastating hurricane: replanting and reclaiming jungle.
Serving as a microcosm/site/set the landscape represents three different time periods: Rauschenberg’s efforts symbolize the world changing optimism of the sixties, an attempt to establish rationalized moderation today in the face of the human race’s destructive evolution, and the sci-fi laws Bolster foresees coming into place to curb the damage.
The figure of Rauschenberg is represented through a reimagining of his Pelican (1963) performance as a durational walk from the bay side of Captiva to the Gulf of Mexico. The graceful dance in roller-skates of the original are replaced by an awkward protracted walk on a jungle dirt road representing our difference in state from that period in time to this.
Drawing on Darwinism and the idea that living through ritual, religion, and tradition; the human race is ceasing to adapt to the crises it faces. It proposes the hope for an escape from a poisoned planet through the embracing of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking’s idea of two earthlike planets, which we have yet to evolve the advanced technology to reach.
Addressing the affect of established cultural/belief systems and questioning received ideas of the afterlife that encourage a focus on the next world undermining any impetus to change behavior or adapt. The film functions as a call to all members of society to become active in issues around landscape and preservation.
Irish artist George Bolster lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe, the United States, and Canada. Bolster’s work has been featured in the book Creative Ireland: The Visual Arts by Sean Kissane, Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Noel Kelly, Director of Visual Arts Ireland. He has been awarded numerous grants from the Arts Council of Ireland, and Culture Ireland. Bolster also received a Grant for Artists Award from The Arts Council of England in 2008. In 2013, he was awarded a residency by the Rauschenberg Foundation, on Captiva Island in Florida, where he researched the beginnings of Rauschenberg’s environmental activism and his residency at NASA. His film on Rauschenberg’s endeavors on Captiva, and his involvement in (EAT) Experiments in Art and Technology are catalogued in Un/natural History: Drowning Captiva, which was commissioned by Nuit Blanche, Toronto in 2014. Bolster has been artist in residence at (SETI) The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute researching at NASA Ames, in collaboration with Montalvo Arts Center/Lucas Artists Residency Program since 2016, The archive of his residency projects and research will be held by Nevada Art Museum. The Moon McMoon's and the Moon Museum was first shown at New Museum (NUMU) Los Gatos, in 2016. He was recently awarded an Artist-in-Residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, France, where he will work on a new expanded film project in 2019. Bolster graduated with a BA(Hons) in Painting from Chelsea College of Art in London, England, and went on to graduate with an MA in Fine Art Film from Central Saint Martins College, London, England.
Raptor Conservation - A Biologist's Perspective
Dr. John Edwards of the Hawk and Owl Trust gave a 30 minute presentation at the Northern England Raptor Forum Conference at Rishworth School on 20th November 2010. During the lunch break, I persuaded him to go on camera with an abridged version of that presentation. Whilst a 7 minute YouTube clip can only scrape the surface of this subject, hopefully it will open up channels for discussion and enlighten those for whom the term predator is synonymous with that out-dated Victorian term - vermin.
Pine Island Preserve at Matlacha Pass
A quick tour of the mangroves and Matlacha Pass on Pine Island, Florida. This property is owned by the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast. By 2018, Conservation Foundation will open Pine Island Preserve at Matlacha Pass to the public, free of charge, 365 days a year. This park and nature preserve will serve as a trail head for Lee County's 190-acre Pine Island Flatwoods Preserve, the Great Calusa Blueway, and public water access to Matlacha Pass National Wildlife Refuge, Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park, and Matlacha Pass Aquatic Preserve.
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Record number of sea turtle hatchlings recorded on some SWFL islands
The Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation tally shows a record number of 48,444 hatchlings on both islands. SCCF is calling this its comeback season.