May is an excellent time for locals to hit the beach.
The climate and water temperatures will eventually become tolerable, and Southwest Florida’s coastal waters regularly look like postcards from the Bahamas.
Days are long, and the afternoon sea breeze is strong enough to offer a little relief for the hottest hours.
Tourism season is over, and the rainy season is simply around the nook.
So, with Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, right here are five first-rate places to make your holiday memorable:
Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park
This coastal gem is covered with huge sea oats and palm bushes, and it offers plenty of color for a picnic.
It also can be a terrific vicinity to snorkel when the water is spotless.
There’s plenty of seashore for an extended walk or a swim, and fishing is ideal on the pass at the park’s northern end.
Although it’s a country park, parking is limited at Delnor-Wiggins, so getting there early is fine.
Tigertail Beach Park
One of two public seashores on Marco Island, Tigertail, wraps around the northwest cease of the island and is quite remote and undeveloped.
Tigertail is popular for shell creditors, birders, paddleboarding and kiteboarding, and windsurfing.
The park has a more stored seaside for folks who want the sugar-sand experience and an untouched shoreline to the north for folks who need an extra natural journey.
Blind Pass
This little coastal heaven is popular for shoreline and bridge anglers, shell creditors, and sometimes surfers.
Spanning both the south tip of Captiva and the north end of Sanibel, Blind Pass has plenty of space for a protracted seaside walk or a walk in the knee-deep waters some hundred yards away from the pass, where symptoms warn against swimming due to tidal currents.
Both facets of the skip have sandbars for site visitors to explore at low tide.
There are restrooms and outdoor showers on the Captiva side.
Location: North give up of Sanibel-Captiva Road and south stop of Captiva Drive
Bunche Beach
This seashore retreat is tucked away between the nearby bustle of Fort Myers Beach and the lengthy strains of Sanibel.
Stretches of sand wrap around a largely undeveloped mangrove shoreline.
Sandbars and seagrass flats amplify properly off the seashore, permitting visitors to wade in the shallow waters.
Depending on the climate, this location is popular for paddlers, kiteboarders, and windsurfers.
The shallow seagrass beds provide amazing fishing to land-based total anglers and kayak fishers.
These same conditions additionally draw many wading birds and the aquatic natural world, including manatees and dolphins.
Lovers Key State Park
Just south of Fort Myers Beach, Lovers Key State Park has over two miles of undeveloped, global-elegance seashore along the Gulf of Mexico.
Often cited in numerous TV “Top Ten Beaches” packages, Lovers Key has tropical canopies, nesting ospreys, coastal dune structures, and entry to Estero Bay.
There are also off-road bicycle trails, and the park is famous for trail runners.
