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DISCOVER CAPTIVA ISLAND, FLORIDA


DISCOVER CAPTIVA ISLAND

Captiva Island, a sister island to larger Sanibel Island, is just over a small
bridge which crosses at Turner Beach. Turner Beach is a great place for catching
that prize fish and also for finding the colorful shells that these islands are
famous for. The beach stretches 5 miles to the northern tip of Captiva Island at
Redfish Pass. From the bridge at Turner beach, Captiva Drive is a scenic drive
past giant cactus, colorful bougainvilleas and other tropical flora along a
stretch of sea and sand ending at “downtown” Captiva, which is more of a village
than a town.
 


HISTORY OF CAPTIVA ISLAND

According to local folklore, Captiva got its name because the pirate captain
José Gaspar (Gasparilla) held his female prisoners on the island for ransom (or
worse). However, the supposed existence of José Gaspar is sourced from an
advertising brochure of an early 20th-century developer and may be a
fabrication.

Around 3000 B.C., the sands of Captiva started to erode, resulting in the
eventual formation of Sanibel Island. The Gulf of Mexico waters were eight feet
lower than they are today. It is said that the first inhabitants of Captiva were
The Calusa Indians.[1] The population of the Calusa is believed to have reached
as many as 50,000 people. “Calusa” means “fierce people”, and they were
described as a war-like people. The Calusa Indians were resistant to
colonization and attacked any explorers who came into their territory. Calusa
Indians built their houses on stilts without walls. They wove palmetto leaves
together to build roves (twisted strands of fibers). The Calusa Indians fished
for food on the coast, bays, rivers, and waterways. They did not farm. “The men
and boys of the tribe made nets from palm tree webbing to catch mullet, pinfish,
pigfish, and catfish. They used spears to catch eels and turtles. They made fish
bone arrowheads to hunt for animals such as deer. The women and children learned
to catch shellfish like conchs, crabs, clams, lobsters, and oysters.”  The
Calusa Indians used the shells on the island for utensils, jewelry, tools,
weapons, and ornaments.

By the late 1700s, most of the Calusa Indians had died out. Many were captured
and sold as slaves while others died from diseases such as smallpox and measles.

An Austrian named Binder (b. 1850) was on a German freighter headed to New
Orleans when the ship crashed and he was shipwrecked off Boca Grande. He then
washed up to shore on what has been since 1921, Upper Captiva. “He lived for
several weeks on what the unoccupied island had to offer, built a makeshift
raft, and got himself to Pine Island, where he was helped to return to his home.
By 1888, due to his having fought with the U.S. Army, he became naturalized and
was allowed to homestead on Captiva in 1888, when he was 38 years old. For 10
years he was Captiva’s first and only inhabitant. He died in 1932.”


GEOGRAPHY

Originally part of neighboring Sanibel Island to the southeast, it was severed
in 1926 when a hurricane‘s storm surge created a new channel, Blind Pass. The
channel filled in over subsequent years but was reopened by dredging in the
summer of 2009. Like Sanibel, Captiva is a barrier island to Pine Island (to the
east of Captiva and north of Sanibel), however, it is much narrower. The only
automobile access to Captiva is via the Sanibel Causeway and Sanibel-Captiva
Road, which ends in the CDP of Captiva, the island’s only CDP. Captiva was
homesteaded in 1888 and a tiny cemetery next to The Chapel by the Sea has the
grave of the original resident, William Herbert Binder (1850–1932), an Austrian.
Half the island is in private ownership, with “Millionaire’s Row”, luxury homes
on gulf and bay side of Captiva Drive. The South Seas Island Resort entry gate
is at the end of this road. Roosevelt Channel on the east side of the island is
named for Theodore Roosevelt who fished there.

North Captiva Island or Upper Captiva is another island, in turn, severed from
Captiva in a 1921 hurricane, creating Redfish Pass. North Captiva has power from
lines that originate on the north end of Captiva and is privately owned. With
about 300 homes built and 300 vacant lots, the island is about halfway to
build-out. Since the island can be accessed by boat or small plane only, North
Captiva real estate values are generally lower than on Captiva.

Captiva was seriously damaged in August 2004 when the eastern eyewall of
Hurricane Charley struck North Captiva, immediately before hitting Charlotte
Harbor to the north-northeast. Initial reports indicated that 160 buildings were
destroyed and another 160 seriously damaged. Reports indicate that the storm
surge cut a path 491 yards (449 m) wide across the narrowest part of North
Captiva, separating the island. The separation of the two halves of the island
began three years earlier during a series of tornadoes caused by Tropical Storm
Gabrielle that passed through the area in September 2001. The new pass filled in
within a few years and is now back to its pre-Charley state. Most of the
invasive Australian pines on the island blew over in the hurricane, making room
for native mangroves and sabal palms.

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