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25 04 2008

Lovers Key State Park

Posted by: Dale in Florida, Lovers Key State Park, tags: , , ,

Lovers Key State Park in Florida

I cheated I went to Lovers Key without a lover but alas they let me in anyway. I wasn’t camping here (no campground), but I was just visiting for a day visit. I’m staying in a park not too far away in Estero Florida.

Now lovers key was named such because it was once only accessible by boat, me at lovers keyand lovers would go their for the romantic setting (wink wink nudge nudge). Lovers Key State Park is between Fort Myers Florida and Naples and it has some beautiful beaches about 2 and a half miles of beach for fun fun splash splash, walking, bird gawking or whatever. It is a complex of 4 barrier islands, Lovers Key (the one with the beach) Inner key, Black Island, and Long Key. Bonita beach hotels were out to the south and Sanibel island could be seen way off to the north. They also had a little tram to take folks out to the beach. I just walked, but I guess the tram would be handy for folks who had either too much beach stuff or too much blubber to walk the very nice boardwalks to the beach. Oh and they had a little gift shop, I had a coke after a nice swim.

They also have bike rentals, and canoe rentals at the park. They have bike trails as well. Hey maybe you will even see a Pirate ghost or something as local legend has it that Black Augustus a pirate made his home here after running away from the man.

osprey nest at lovers key state park

The osprey and lots of birds had their nests right next to the beach. The park had the area fenced off with a string and Bird nesting area sign so folks would not frighten away the birds from their homes. I watched the big Osprey with its nest in a tree feeding its babies., The chicks would go squawk-squawk-squawk-squeek-squeek-squawkitee-squawk… which is bird talk for feed me- feed me feed me, no me, feed me already-feed me.

The area betweenview-of-bonita-beach Sanibel Island and lovers key didn’t seem to have alot of waves, there were ordinary small power boats mucking about out there, not something you see much on open ocean. but apparently all the keys and Sanibel
area offer the area shelter preventing excessive wave pounding. I didn’t notice any large boats out there, so I’d be interested in checking the Nav charts to see how deep it is out there.

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