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Perfect weather! Perfect night for a Sunset Dolphin Cruise!

As we boarded, the Schaub family from Minnesota caught sight of a manatee alongside the docks, (thanks to the good eye of local grandson, Austin)! With just a slight coolness in the air we cruised out of Port Sanibel Marina, along Connie Mack channel where guests enjoyed seeing the magnificent homes of exclusive Jonathon Harbour to the starboard side of the channel and mangrove forest port side! Quite a dichotomy that will charm your soul!

Cruising out to the entrance of San Carlos Bay we can see Sanibel Island and many smaller islands in front of the vessel. Looking to our right we can see a long white beach…but what is that which makes the sand so white? Wow…it is literally hundreds of white pelicans that visit our waters every year this time! Such a beautiful sight!

Everyone is excited to see dolphins playing in the distant waters… (with cooler temps we weren’t sure how active the dolphins would be tonight), and the dolphins played not letting us down!
Guests visited with each other, while Captain Bill and first mate Angela pointed out areas of interest relaying Florida Cracker stories to everyone.

Gently cruising to the West, everyone became quiet, almost holding their breath as the sun began to sink from the heavens. The sky became a brilliant reddish orange! We sat quietly wishing this moment would last forever, but the sun began settling down beyond the horizon, softening the colors to a pinkish gray.
The boat did a gentle 360 turn to experience a huge, white, full moon rising! How perfect is this! So many oohs and aahs! This definitely is the perfect sun set to a perfect day!

Thanks you to all our guests that cruised with Adventures in Paradise tonight! We hope your 2012 will be as wonderful as this night has been!

Lots of Brown Pelicans seen on the Sunset Cruise!

Considering the cold it was a pretty good trip tonight..always beautiful here.

31 hardy passengers from various states including Indiana, North Carolina, and as far North as Minnesota. But it was chilly for all. A 15MPH wind out of the NW. We went up the Caloosahatchee (river), to help keep the wind to our backs.

Beaching the boat at Big Shell Island, we sat and watched the sunset along with about a dozen brown pelicans sitting nearby on the sandy point of the island Continuing up river, we soon spotted two dolphins and spent some time with them. They would appear, then dissappear many times, but never went very far from the boat. The water here is relatively deep and the air is cold, perhaps they kept warmer staying down a little longer. We turned around at Little Shell Island, which is a subject of interest by itself.
Capt. Bob

Wonderful day of cruising!

We had a very good fishing trip with a large family of 11 from Illinos and a family of 4 from Virginia. The weather has changed, we are now getting 10mph out of the NW and the water temp has dropped from 74 to 71. Air Temp in the upper 70,s. Trying to hide from the wind, we still did ok, catching some Sugar Trout, and small Sea Trout at the first stop. Then we moved not more than quarter mile and there we caught several Spanish Mackerel, a few Spotted Trout and a Flounder..and a few unmentionables such as Lizardfish and Catfish (and a pretty little Squirrelfish)

On the SeaLife Encounter: Almost routine, Dolphins several times, great fun for folks at Picnic Island catching all the small creatures that we usualy catch,fish shrimp,etc.. Then in the Big net drag, we caught several fish, pinfish, sugar trout, and a cute little Southern Puffer.

The Sunset Dolphin cruise got a little chilly (about 65 degrees and dropping fast), but 36 brave folks went with us to see the Sunset and find some Dolphins. Because the wind was coming out of the NW, decided to go up the River with the wind to our backs. Checked on our active Osprey nest..still can't see the chicks. Spotted a Bald Eagle on BigShell Island then on up to Little Shell Island (very Interesting) we found a Dolphin and we got to look at him for awhile, even though it appeared he was having dinner. We had a beautiful Sunset from Big Shell Island. A good day..but make it warmer..Please!

Capt. Bob

Fishing. Wow! This turned out to be an athletic event with all the fish being caugh almost non-stop!

Everybody caught fish Mostly Ladyfish and Spotted Sea Trout.. We had a great time.

Sealife Encounter. The weather cannot be better. Working our way toward Picnic Island, we spent some time with several pods of Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin. The dip net catch at Picnic was a lot of fun with shrimp and baby pin fish and jelly combs and a some hermit crabs. Our deep water net drag caught a prize seahorse and a huge Blue Crab held by Mike Cohn the Naturalist. Another great trip!

Sunset. Went up the river for a change and immediately spotted a Bald Eagle. In the river, below the Eagle, were several doplhins swimming around. We spent most of our time watching the dolphins who became quite frisky. Hard to take our eyes off the dolphins to watch the beautiful Sunset over Pine Island, but it was a beauty! It's really been a great day here!

Capt. Bob

Great Time on the Valentine's Sunset Cruise!

We had a beautiful day here in the low 70s with the wind 5 to 10 out of the NNW. The boat was stocked with beautiful roses, colorful cupcakes and lots of Valentine candy, including some chocolate covered cherries.

As we left the Port Sanibel Channel and entered San Carlos Bay, Dave Lamon the Host/Mate began passing around the goodies.

We soon encountered a lone Dolphin as we turned onto the Intra-Coastal, but it was not very interested in us and moved on. As we continued West on the ICW we found 5 to 6 Dolphins right in line with the Sunset. We got a little better look at them while taking in the beautiful Sunset over Pine Island. After the Sunset, with the after glow on the horizon, the air got quite chilly, but it didn't bother the folks on board as they had their Love to keep them warm! At the end of the cruise, each Lady passenger was presented a beautiful red rose.

Capt. Bob

Great evening out on the water!

A very nice group on board! There were guests from Canada, Virginia, Indiana, North Carolina, Arizona and New York.

A little cool even though the slight breeze was out of the Southeast and changed to the Southwest, everyone was prepared with sweaters and windbreakers. (We Floridians aren't use to this weather!)We circled around Black Skimmer Island and headed toward Texas via the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) directly into the Sun. We could not find any Dolphins, but enjoyed a beautiful Sunset from off Picnic Island. Just as I was beginning to become fearful that there might be a mutiny on board, for not finding Dolphins, Dolphins suddenly appeared on our return in the ICW! Everyone got a good look and lots of pictures of our incredible Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins!

Capt. Bob