Scenes from Staniel Cay Yacht Club
If you are in the Staniel Cay area, please come and visit Staniel Cay Yacht Club, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR! Photos were recently taken by Winston Fowler.
If you are in the Staniel Cay area, please come and visit Staniel Cay Yacht Club, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR! Photos were recently taken by Winston Fowler.
Social media might make it seem cool to go viral with the next mind-blowing animal encounter, but feeding many wild animals, especially marine mammals, is already illegal.
Sharks + intentional feeding = a dangerous situation for all involved. CONTRIBUTED
STOP FEEDING WILD ANIMALS by Alex Rickert
Keys Weekly
We dump our sewer plant discharges into their water, then drain our streets and highways into their environment. But you are worried about humans feeding them???
HIGHFIELD, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, is the leading builder of aluminum-hulled RIBs. Performance and strength are the key features of every HIGHFIELD RIB. Their advanced hull designs and Italian-influenced interior styling, keep alive the reputation of a dry-riding, seaworthy and stable craft that can handle rough conditions, as well as please the discerning eye.
I saw this Highfield tender at Staniel Cay Yacht Club today. Good to see their product at another Cruisers Net sponsor’s place.
Winston Fowler
A longtime CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, historic Edenton always has an exciting calendar of events! Edenton is at the mouth of the Chowan River on the northwest shore of Albemarle Sound.
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HIGHFIELD, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, is the leading builder of aluminum-hulled RIBs. Performance and strength are the key features of every HIGHFIELD RIB. Their advanced hull designs and Italian-influenced interior styling, keep alive the reputation of a dry-riding, seaworthy and stable craft that can handle rough conditions, as well as please the discerning eye.
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Our thanks to Southern Boating and Ed Tilletts for giving Cruisers Net permission to publish Ed’s excellent article on the Outer Banks.
Click here for Inside the Outer Banks by Ed Tilletts, Editor-in-Chief of Waterway Guide Media
Southern Boating
A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, Harbortown Marina lies off the southern shores of the Canaveral Barge Canal between Sykes Creek and the Banana River. This fine facility has recently expanded their ship’s store!
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As sea level rises and storms become more frequent and powerful, the famed vacation spot is fighting an increasingly difficult battle to keep from washing away.
Drone aerial view of Outer Banks Highway 12 with Atlantic Ocean and Sound on both sides, Cape Hatteras National Seashore. (Photo by: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Click link for: Shifting Sands: Carolina’s Outer Banks Face a Precarious Future
Inside Climate News
The desert outside Cairo, Egypt is littered with petrified forest tree trunks and not far thousands of acres of petrified clam shells on the high plateaus. The dry ravines 150' below have barely any vegetation, if at all. Where did the water go? Humans had nothing to do with it. Just like they have nothing to do with climate change now.
When will we learn that it is hard to control "Mother Nature?" Also, when we we all take climate change seriously? Does anyone really believe that pumping tons and tons of snd will last very long?
Hidden Gems: Florida – The Triton
The Triton
BOAT ETIQUETTE 101: HOW TO GET INVITED BACK – ONBOARD MAGAZINE
Keys Weekly by Mandy Miles
Health alerts have been issued for blue-green algal toxins found in Florida waterways.
The toxins were found in water samples taken, according to the Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County.
Lake Okeechobee:
South Florida: Blue-green algae health alerts – WPBF
WPBF
In Pamlico Sound early Tuesday afternoon, near Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge in Down East Carteret County, two excavators at each end of a barge strategically placed the day’s load of 700 tons of limestone marl and crushed concrete into the water.
Excavators deploy limestone marl and concrete into the Pamlico Sound Tuesday to build the Cedar Island Oyster Sanctuary. Photo: Jennifer Allen
Click here for: Pamlico Sound oyster sanctuary network continues to grow
CoastalReview.org
In Coastal Review’s continuing series on coastal county history, the county named for the first English child born in the New World still draws people from around the world.
The current Washington Baum Bridge was completed in 1994. Photo: Roger Mulligan/Creative Commons
Click here for: Dare County has played key roles in NC history, tourism
CoastalReview.org
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Away from the bustling summer crowds, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s new “Kayak with a Ranger” program allows participants to get close to and appreciate nature during guided paddles of the salt marshes and waters of Pamlico Sound.
Click her for more: Ranger-guided paddles encourage ecosystem appreciation
CoastalReview.org
Officially “The Friendly City,” Bradenton is a vibrant city located along the Gulf Coast in Manatee County in the US State of Florida.
Click here for more information: Bradenton, FL
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AREA SPONSORING MARINAS
Click Here To View the Western Florida Cruisers Net Marina Directory Listing For Twin Dolphin Marina
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Cruisers Net lists only one marina, Four Winds Marina, suitable for drafts less then 3.5ft, at the northern tip of Pine Island. However, there are several good depth anchorages at the southern tip of the island just north of the Caloosahatchee River and the Okeechobee Waterway.

Of the entire US, Pine Island is the 118th largest island and resides in Florida’s Lee County, which is west of Cape Coral. Pine Island is a part of a chain of islands that constitute the Matlacha Pass and separates it from the Florida Mainland. On the west side of Pine Island reside the Intracoastal Waterway, a waterway that runs from Massachusetts to Texas, passing around the Florida Peninsula. Of the nearby islands, Sanibel Island lies to the south, North Captiva Island to the west, and Captiva Island to the southwest.
Similar to nearby Fort Myers, Pine Island is made up of deposits of coral rock. This variation of limestone encrusted with fossilized shells, animals, and even pine trees found in the northern tip from the excavation is common throughout southern Florida. Following millions of years of North America settling into place from the continental drift, that state’s land mass was twice as large. This saw extensive forests, dunes, and tributaries with the coast of the Gulf of Mexico starting another 100 miles west of Pine Island. Thus, came the ice age, which brought forth flooding as the glacier defrosted. Around 4500 BC, the shape of Florida formed into something similar to today. The former ice age also increased water levels and created the long and narrow islands seen off the gulf coast, including Pine Island. With churning ocean water, channels, shoals, and the unnamed sand beaches that are a familiar attraction of Pine Island formed. However, the mingling of freshwater and saltwater from the tributaries’ output created sedimentation. The fallen trees from the shore, among shells, animals, and other items fossilized in this sedimentation, created the limestone, better known as coral rock.
Long before the town of Pine Island existed, the Calusa Indians were the first known inhabitants of this island, around 800 AD. The first contact with outsiders did not occur until the mid-16th century when Spanish conquistadors landed. By the 19th century, there were no further documented occurrences of the Calusa Indians, and it is believed the tribe could have died off or dissolved into other tribes. Ongoing research is being conducted on Pine Island to further understand the Calusa Indians, with artifacts being unearthed as of today.

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