We have been seeing many dolphins and manatees on our Fort myers Beach boat tours so far this summer, and the birding has just been amazing! We have been spotting lots of Roseate Spoonbills, night herons, and reddish egrets. We are so fortunate to have such diversity in our wildlife here around Fort Myers Beach. Here is a pic, by Cristina, of some Roseate Spoonbills feeding and pruning, along with some egrets.

Captains Mike, Cristina, and Dwight are all currently taking the Universtiy of Florida  Master Florida Naturalist certification class and are having too much fun as usual. They were recently on a field trip to seine the grass flats at lover’s Key. The class was successful at sampling and caught seahorses, filefish,permit, whiting, and a plethora of other species. Here in the pictures is Capts Dwight and Mike dragging a seine and the other is of Judy Ott, a Department of Environmental Protection biologist who is also taking the class, with a little bit of Capt Cristina in there. Judy and Cristina used to work together for DEP, and would occasionally do sea grass monitoring together. They hadn’t seen each other in years and were like kids again identifying fish together.

Dolphins chasing our boat during our cruise yesterday. How fun! Here’s a video of it: dolphin video

Here’s a short video of a resident dolphin we have named Notch and her calf chasing our boat during a tour . To view click on this link: dolphin Tour Fort Myers Beach Good Time Charter

Season has slowed down a little bit but the dolphins have not. We have been still been seeing lots of manatees as well. We have also been seeing the roseate spoonbills, reddish egrets, and many anhingas around. The photo here is of a couple passengers on a recent cruise with us. They had front row seats to watch the dolphins jumping behind our boat!

Here are some photos submitted to us by the Bradshaw family who go on a fishing charter every year with Capt Mike. The boys in this family are such a hoot and Pete is such a gentleman and great fisherman. One photo is of Pete showing off his Mackeral that he landed and the other is of the rest of the gang with their signature fishing stance. They were a lot of fun. Pete and his mom also joined us for a Coastal Sealife and shelling cruise. We saw many dolphins and manatee, and found lots of sealife at the island.

Here are a couple of pictures of a mom and her two loving boys on board. Mom chartered the whole boat for a special outing with her two boys and she combined our marine life charter with a sunset cruise. What an amazing night and we personally think this the best time to do our marine life charter. We were out for four hours leaving at 4pm so by the time we got to our shell island all the other boaters had left, leaving the island all for us! The kids enjoyed swimming and finding all sorts of sea life including, conchs, whelks, calico crab, and sea stars. After a couple hours at the island we left and found lots of dolphin all throughout the bay, some feeding and some playing. Then we headed out to the Gulf side and watched an amazing sunset. We have such beautiful sunsets here on Fort Myers Beach. As we headed back to our marina we were able to watch the huge moon rise! What a sight and a perfect way to end the charter for our passengers.

What great weather we have been having! Sunny and warm is the forecast. Fishing has been fun with a lot of our regulars returning to go fishing with Capt Mike. And our dolphin tours have been filling up every day, and we have been seeing LOTS of dolphins and also quite a few manatee. Here are some recent photos.

It’s mid March and the waters are stocked with wildlife. We have been seeing lots of dolphin, manatee are making appearances here and there, and Capt Mike is reporting great fishing with these great tides we have been having. Cristina has also been spotting sea turtle in the bay, Capts Joe and Dwight are also finding dolphin feeding and playing. Here are a couple pics from some recent charters. One is from a Marine Life charter of the kids on board with some of the sea life they found. The other is of a long time regular Dallas and his dad, with his 25 inch redfish that he landed during a fishing charter with Capt Mike .