The Bokeelia land purchased by Lee County is near Smokehouse Bay Preserve and within the Matlacha Pass Aquatic Preserve at the NE end of Pine Island.

A federal appeals court has rejected a Monroe County commercial fisherman’s constitutional challenge to Florida rules about pompano fishing in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

I pulled my kayak paddle through the water and hit something solid – a giant gray creature, lurking just below the surface, ...