Sanibel Island Lighthouse & Bowman Beach

While at Indian Creek RV Resort and Manufacture Community, one morning we looked out our windows, and saw a stream of bikers going by.

Joe went out and took this picture as I was still in my P.J.'s. Later, we found out that every Friday at 9AM, whoever wants to ride, meet at a certain starting point. There are generally 175 riders, with 217 being the most at one time. They ride up and down all the streets in the park, which makes it a 5 mile ride.

We have found that this community is very active. One morning there was a volley ball and tennis tournaments going on.

We headed back over the causeway to Sanibel Island after paying the $6.00 toll.

There are a lot of people that park for the day (free) on the narrow beaches along the causeway, instead of going to the $2.00/ hour beaches on Sanibel & Captiva Island.

Our first stop is Lighthouse Beach. The parking lot at the Lighthouse Beach is also small and we had to wait for someone to leave to park to park the car. This time the wait was a minute or two, instead of 20 minutes like we had on Captiva Island.

The Lighthouse was lit for the first time in 1884.

There was a large bird 2/3's of the way up, but I could not get a good picture of it.

Sanibel's fishing pier is also on the Lighthouse Beach.

View of the causeway bridge and Fort Myers Beach in the distance, and lovers in the foreground.

Anther picture of the bird. It looks like some kind of hawk, or maybe an osprey in this picture.

Lighthouse and lighthouse homes on the beach.

We walked on the beach with Mallery, since we had paid for the parking.

After our lighthouse beach walk, we drove to Bowman's Beach. I like the " No nude sunbathing" on the sign. At a beach in St Pettersburg, we did see 3 different guys sunbathing alone, in what looked to be thongs.

The parking lot at Bowman's Beach is very large. No waiting for a parking spot at this beach.

You cross a waterway to the beach.

The walk to the beach is long,

especially when you have beach gear,

and a dog that gets whimpy in the sun!

Yeah the beach! My arm's were breaking.

We've become lazy beach bums! Check out our newly purchased beach umbrella. (I wanted a colorful one, but the white one was cheaper and would fit any decor in the future)

If you look close you can see Mallery hiding in the shade behind my chair.

Joe pulls her up for a picture.

Lots of shells here. Sanibel is famous for all their shells. All the shells we see are small, but there are suppose to be large one too. I guess everyone has snatched them up by the time we get to the beach.

This is a rough pen shell. I got a pamphet that tells you the name of shell on Sanibel and Captiva. I don't know what is attached to it though.

A cactus flower at the beach.

And of course more birds.

As we approach the birds from one direction, another couple approaches the birds from the other way.

I like Bowman Beach the best so far on Sanibel Island, because it has the widest beach with the most shells.

Mallery loved her walk on the beach, as well as chasing the birds ( as far as her leash would let her go). She was able to stay cool from the ocean water and breeze.