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Fort Myers Beach Fishing and Dolphin Charters

bjs — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:59:26 +0000

Can you Boogie like a Batfish? Sure you can! Despite the pretty red lips these Batfish are some the strangest looking fish in our bay! With the broad head region they sure look funny when they swim. Their entire front end shakes side to side like a funny dance. Though these fish prefer not to swim around a whole lot, too much work you see, especially since they clearly are not designed for speed. They prefer to sit on the sea floor bottom, maybe use those bottom fins to “walk” around, and wait for something tasty to eat to swim close by. They are pretty sneaky with that great camouflage to blend in. It may seem they lack a dorsal fin but actually it is modified, moveable, and small so they can use it to lure shrimp, crab and other fare. Two new species of batfish were discovered in the Gulf of Mexico as recently as 2010! We recently had this Batfish in our aquarium at Snook Bight marina for a few days to show off before letting him return back to the bay. Stop in and see us and our aquarium! We always have something new in the tank and love to show off our fish friends! Our Dolphin tours around Fort myers Beach have been so fun! Lots of dolphin and still some manatees around as well. Capt Mike is sooo busy with fishing charters and if you haven’t booked with him yet for the holidays you might miss out. We are so thankful for all of our regulars and repeat guests!! We always try harder to make your revisit better than your 1st! Give us a call or better yet stop by and see us and our displays!

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Fort Myers Beach things to do

bjs — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:40:17 +0000

Fort Myers Beach dolphin cruises and fishing charters. We have been having a great July so far! Lots of manatee sightings and playful dolphins around. I have been enjoying all the birds too! Lots of pelican, egret, and heron chics this year! They are so cute. I attached a pic I took of Great Blue Heron chics patiently waiting for mom or dad to bring back some food. I volunteer when I can to assist the Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve bird monitoring program and I really enjoy watching the chics grow up. They grow so fast though! You know a brown pelican chic is full grown in 3 months? Come join us for a cruise and learn more about this beautiful ecosystem!

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Fort Myers Beach dolphin cruises, kayak, and fishing charter

bjs — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:47:17 +0000

The weather at Fort Myers Beach is beautiful and the wildlife abundant! We are spotting more manatees feeding on the grass beds and were lucky enough to observe a mother with her calf swim by our boat as we sat in neutral. What a treat that was! Our passengers on our coastal sealife dolphin cruise have been finding live sea stars and huge conchs, all safely released before we leave the shell island. Our kayakers this morning also found some huge whelks on their tour this morning. Capt Mike has been fishing all day every day and the red fish bite has been on fire! Our sunset cruises from Fort Myers Beach have been a lot of fun too!

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Fort Myers Beach sunset cruise and dolphin tour

bjs — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:06:39 +0000

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.

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Fort Myers dolphin tours,fishing charters Fort Myers Beach

bjs — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:05:00 +0000

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.

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Fort mYers dolphin tour, Fort Myers fishing

bjs — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:31:45 +0000

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 .

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Dolphin Tours Fort Myers Beach

bjs — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:38:02 +0000

We are seeing some seasonal changes with our wildlife around Fort Myers Beach! The pelicans are getting their breeding plumage, Osprey chicks are hatching, the manatees are back, Cristina spotted a sea turtle on a recent tour, and Capt Mike has reported lots of baitfish and small shark in the passes. The weather has been amazing too with Lots of warm sunshine. Here are a couple of pics from a recent marine Life Explorer’s Charter. We saw lots of dolphin on that charter, and they didn’t do any of their usual jumps and chase our boat because they were too interested in each other! We were lucky enough to spy on a whole resident pod mating, and some were feeding on a school of mullet. In the same area that activity was going on we also saw a manatee. What a site. The kids found all kinds of shells and had a great time finding all sorts of sea life, including a really cool lined sea star. This charter was great fun went by too fast.

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Fort Myers Beach Activities

bjs — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:14:11 +0000

What a great afternoon on the water we had with the Tiessen family. They chartered us for our Marine Life Explorer’s Adventure and we all had such a great time. The kids were really adventurous, joining our marine biologist in the mysterious grass beds with nets in hand to see what all they could catch. After getting the hang of the nets, they were all catching whelks, hermit crab, horseshoe crab, small fish, and a variety of other sealife. Other than beautiful shells to keep, they also found a lot of sea life at our shell island, such as sea stars and sea urchins. The dolphins were abundant and one of our resident dolphin, Oscar, was sighted. The Tiessen’s sent us some photos from their adventure, one of their daughter with a sea star and one of Oscar, one of the many dolphin we encountered that afternoon.

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Dolphin Tours Fort Myers Beach

bjs — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:40:36 +0000

We are so fortunate to have so much sealife abounding in our surrounding waters. These photos are from a recent Marine Life Explorers Private charter with the Hall family of four generations. What a pleasure they all were to have out with us. We went to our shelling island and not only found beautiful shells but the kids found seastars, sea urchin, whelks, sponge, blue crab, hermit crab. They were quite the explorers and found lots of sealife! Then they used our seine net, and with a little practice, were catching tons of small fish. We put everything in a touch tank for viewing before everything was let go. The dolphins were also very playful and they sure love to chase our boat! We know they could easily swim faster than our boat but they seem to just enjoy following along and playing.

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Dolphin Tours Ft Myers Beach

bjs — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:34:56 +0000

Had a wonderful Marine Life Explorer’s charter with Monika Wilson and her family! What a delight they were to have out with us. We saw manatees and dolphins and the day was just gorgeous. We stopped at a grass flat along the way, I was hoping to catch them a seahorse but I couldn’t find any! I usually have a great success rate, however we did find lots of other marine life like flatfish, pipefish, spider crab, and sea hares. The water clarity was great at the beach we went to so they used the masks and snorkels to find lots of beautiful seashells. The current was a bit strong and made swimming a bit challenging. Mr Wilson and one of his daughters took off on the kayak to explore the nearby mangrove trails. The morning went by so quickly. What a great way to start the day! Mrs. Wilson provided some pictures of the charter with the crew.

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