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Beach Lifestyles

What's Up FMB announced a new wellness-focused community event is coming to Fort Myers Beach with the debut of Glow by the Gulf, a one-day beachside experience centered around movement, mindfulness, and coastal living. The free event will take place on Saturday, April 18 with activities ...

Big Bounce America Tour coming to Bonita

Adults and kids alike can soon experience a one-of-a-kind experience in Fort Myers full of childlike wonder and fun.  The Big Bounce America 2025 tour is bringing the bounciest, most action-packed experience of the year to Sports Challenge America from March 7 through March 9. ...

MERTF awards Murphy award to DePalma

The Fort Myers Beach Marine & Environmental Resources Task Force (MERTF) recognized Lisa DePalma, a long-time resident, with its Murphy Award. DePalma silently saves distressed creatures one at a time as a volunteer for the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW), Lisa performs ...

Sharpening the Arches

The Arches will not die. They may have been demolished in 1979 to make way for the Matanzas Pass Bridge but the 26-feet high, 104-feet wide arching stone structure that served as the entryway to Fort Myers Beach since the 1920s wants to make a mini-comeback a century later.   Restore Fort ...

Saying Goodbye

Since the late 1920’s, Patti Smith’s family vacationed on Fort Myers Beach at their Miramar St. cottage on the beach side of Estero Boulevard. While the family will always have those memories, the physical home they shared those times in is now gone – bulldozed recently due to the damage ...

The Beach Kids Foundation has been busy this summer – awarding scholarships, planning for this year’s Golden Coconuts Award and working on the first Spirit of the Holidays Christmas Gala since COVID-19 forced the popular event into a two-year hiatus. “We are proud to announce that we had ...