Fort Myers Beach Private Portion at Island Towers: This beach is kept very clean, and the water is very shallow at low tide. When the tide is low you can walk out very far before it gets 5 feet deep. The high/low tide varies in time in the Gulf of Mexico. You can find times for tides at the pier. Shell hunting is best at low time. Fishing is best at high tide.

My favorite part in walking the beaches was finding sand dollars. This was my first experience finding them, and it is well known that keeping them is illegal. When they are alive they are brown in color and their underside is covered with little hairy legs. Whenever I found one alive on the beach I would pick it up with my shovel and toss it back into the water. I found out from another beach comber that they can sting you, and some had done that to her.

There are many exotic birds that you can feed on the beaches. They are not tame but will tolerate the people and eat close to you.

Great inland waterways. Lots of great scenery houses and beaches to stop at. Not hard to navigate and great animal life to watch. Leave from the great warfs and go under bridges and sightsee.

Fun, fun, fun and lots of people in a party vacation mode. There are restaurants everywhere and bands play at happy hour so you can hear them from the beach and go into the ones that hit your fancy. Lots of dancing and fun.

Sandy beach. Easy to walk on. Jetskis available and I would recommend the dolphin tour on a jetski for a couple hours. It's about $90 for a jetski, but worth it.