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    Gulfside Beach

    4.5 (15 reviews)

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    D T.

    We loved this huge beach. It's a lot bigger than the lighthouse beach. Shells galore! It's very beautiful & clean. It was our favorite beach. Great for a long walk & shelling.

    Joel L.

    One of the less popular beaches on Sanibel. Full of sea shells and a lot of open beach to wander. Sometimes parking can be complicated but for us, it was not so bad this year compared to other years.

    Jeanette C.

    Wonderful beach. Beautiful sand. Great beach if you are looking for shells. Parking was $5 per hour we stayed about an hour and a half but you have to prepay. Not crowded at all. My favorite beach in the area, so far. Loved it!

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    5 years ago

    Favorite beach from visiting many. Little crowds, quiet, nice sand and water. Easy parking $5 hour. ....where the locals go!!!

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    “Overall, this beach is just as beautiful as any beach on Sanibel Island.”

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    Captiva Beach

    Captiva Beach

    4.0(21 reviews)
    10.5 mi

    A true piece of heaven right here. We got there just in time to park and enjoy the beach. The water…read morewas simply beautiful. I only wish there were some sort of bathroom facilities besides port a John's.

    About a half hour drive on the causeway from Ft Myers to this remote but lovely beach. Enjoy the…read morescenic drive with blue-green gulf waters and lovely private homes hidden behind palm trees and lush tropical vegetation. Sea shells all over- so much fun! You see folks absorbed in finding one after the next pretty ones! But when you get to this paradise, be ready to pay a more for public beach parking. If you can find a spot! Not easy. Patience is a virtue! As of today, late August 2021, the price is $25/2 hours or $40/day. Nothing in between, like 1 hour or by the half hour. Pay by cash or credit card and display your receipt on the dashboard. I saw park services vehicle in the area. Don't get a ticket. There are no public restrooms, showers or food service. Prices are meant to keep out most ordinary citizens. Captiva is pricey, the playground for the wealthy for the most part. Private landowners enjoy private beach access. We enjoyed the shell-laden beach for two hours. It really is a beautiful stretch of beach. We drove back through Sanibel Island to the other area beaches, checking each one along the way. Most beaches on Sanibel offer parking at $5 /hour. Good for the common folk like us lol!

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    Blind Pass Beach

    Blind Pass Beach

    3.9(29 reviews)
    8.2 mi

    This is the good place to see sunset at evening in Sanibel Island (not include Captiva). The pass…read morehas fast moving tide. Many people fishing on the bridge. It is popular place for fishing due the pass is a bottleneck of the inner bay and the ocean. The beach has beautiful sand. During sunshine day, is look like emerald and blue water. It great place on the beach if you away from the pass. It is good place for the sea shell. The sun make you sleepy with blow of slight wind.

    Blind Pass is the beach name, but could also describe how easily on could simply drive past this…read moresmall beach and never pay it much mind, and it would be fair to do that. I can tell since Hurricane Milton how hard this beach was destroyed which is devastating. But i'm not entirely sure it was a ton nicer even prior. One of the parking lots did get wiped out, so now the amount of parking available is awful, maybe 10-12 spots so if you don't get there quite early good luck getting a spot. And once you park, to get to the actual shoreline you have to walk up and around the giant valley/ pond just beyond the parking lot- lots of decay and damage still there, not sure if they're looking to fix it or not. We also love coming to Sanibel for shelling, and you could find some decent shells along Blind Pass here and there, but pretty underwhelming. There's plenty of other beaches stretching the island with more opportunity, better parking and overall much easier access.

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