To Mound Key and Ft Myers Beach

Leaving Sanibel we finally had a good sailing breeze across San Carlos Bay, though it died before we entered Big Carlos Pass south of Ft. Myers Beach. The pass is barely deep enough for our 3' draft- how many other boats that make it in are high enough to require an opening of the bridge across the pass? The bridge tender must have an easy job. Once inside we wound our way through mangrove islands to our objective of Mound Key, site of the ceremonial capital of the Calusa civilization that ruled the southern half of Florida for 2000 years. Nothing there now but high overgrown mounds and a few inadequate signs, but it was fun to walk around and imagine what was there once. We retreated back to the 21st century and stayed at a fine marina.