Naples Area

Dolphin
Mangrove Trees

Shelling Position
Marco Island Beach

Red Shouldered Hawk
Find the Anhinga

Cypress, Sawgrass, Pines
Old Growth Cypress Trees & Walkway

We are now spending a couple of weeks at the Endless Summer RV Park in Naples. The weather continues to be absolutely spectacular with warm sunny days and cool nights. We have the windows open all the time and have not really needed the AC at all. This may affect our decision about where we are going to spend the winters. We have been tracking the weather in south Texas and Arizona and it is not nearly as warm and sunny as it has been here. We took a boat tour of the Ten Thousand Islands region of the Everglades. It was totally different from the other part we were in with a lot of water and mangrove islands. We got to see bottlenose dolphins that came right up to the boat. We spent one day at the beach on Marco Island, a great place to collect shells. We also went to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary that has a stand of old growth cypress trees and many different birds. They have a two mile walkway that goes through the pine forest, the sawgrass and cypress swamps. There are many very wealthy areas here with a large number of homes and condos many of which are built around golf courses. On Marco Island the shore is lined with high rises over twenty stories high. Old Naples has many beautiful homes in quiet neighborhoods and a neat downtown area with shops and restaurants. The population more than doubles when all the snowbirds are here. We have found that Florida offers something for just about everyone with people spending the winter in RVs, park models, double wides, condos and houses.