Today we made our annual trip to Pine Island for mangoes. Unfortunately, 2014 has turned out to be a poor mango season. There is not a lot of fruit and it is about three weeks late. Nevertheless we still had fun and came home with some yummy fruit: a few mangoes, coconuts, tamarind, and five […]
I love Pine Island. It has no beaches, so development has been slow. But every year I see development gradually swallowing up more and more of the island and it worries me. Now, I have nothing against development, per se. I live in a house. Other people have a right to live in a house […]
We made another run to Pine Island today for mangoes. It’s a tradition I started nearly 20 years ago. A new fruit stand has opened for business in a grove I’ve been driving past for years. Instead of wholesaling their mangoes this year they decided to open a retail stand on their property. Today they […]
Jug Creek Cottages on Pine Island from David McRee on Vimeo. Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com. A few months ago I was on Pine Island for a couple of days to shoot a video for VISIT FLORIDA about the trip out to Cayo Costa Island State Park and Cabbage Key aboard the Tropic Star. […]
I often see the beautiful little star rush plants growing near roadside drainage ditches in places where it is difficult to stop and have a closer look at them. I came upon this impressive showing on Pine Island, a couple of blocks from the Pineland Marina and was able to stop the car and have […]
Osprey photo by David McRee of BlogTheBeach.com
By David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com We drove down to Pine Island today in search of my favorite fruit: ripe mangoes. We hit the jackpot! We also bought 4 pounds of lychees and a couple of medium-sized sapodillas. If you don’t know what those are, I’ll cover them in another blog post in the next week […]
By David McRee of BlogTheBeach.com It’s amazing what giving really great service can do for a business. Customer loyalty is the number one benefit. After a long hot day on Cabbage Key and Cayo Costa Island State Park, I was starving. First I stopped at the Lazy Flamingo (one of my favorite restaurants in Bokeelia), […]
By David McRee of BlogTheBeach.com. Did you catch the big news from Matlacha and Pine Island? Here’s the video: http://www.fox4now.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=3733915&h1=Granny%20gets%20her%20Glock&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=124333&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&rnd=98512296 Here’s the story: http://www.fox4now.com/Global/story.asp?S=10317894 It goes like this. Grandma and Grandpa pull out of the Sandy Hook Fish House in Matlacha onto Pine Island Road. A carload of young whipper-snappers pulls up behind them and […]
A Quiet Walk Among Calusa Indian Middens and Gumbo Limbo Trees from David McRee on Vimeo. For a long time I’ve been driving past Randell Research Center on Pine Island, FL on my way to other places. When the weather and the moon conspired to ruin my plans for a trip to Cayo Costa, I […]
