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One of several pools with a water view at the South Seas Island Resort on Captiva Island. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst
Captiva Island on Florida s west coast is known for its seashells, but what caught our attention immediately on a recent stay was the wildlife, especially the birds.
From our second story Marina Villa balcony at the South Seas Island Resort, we had a prime perch to see a great number of egrets, ibises, pelicans, blue herons, turkey vultures and especially ospreys fishing, flying and tending to their business.
We watched a yellow-crested night heron on our front lawn pick apart its favorite food, a crab, and devour it bite by bite. The ospreys were flying low, giving us a close-up view. We even watched one osprey build and defend a nest in a construction crane. Sadly, a crew came along to put the crane back to use a day later.
Shell museum, Alliance for the Arts to host art exhibition
By BMNSM - | Jan 21, 2021
JOHN MERCHANT
“Pipe Dream”
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum and Alliance for the Arts have partnered to create an art exhibition about water. From Feb. 9 to April 30, it will be on display on the museum’s second floor.
Water is the source of all life and has been an inspiration for artists, writers and philosophers around the world for thousands of years, officials reported. The exhibition will bring together scientists and artists of different media, as well as historians and authors, for an extended conversation regarding humans’ relationship and dependence upon water in all its forms. The exhibit hopes to bring interpretations and responses to humans’ infinite individual and communal connections to water.