Matlacha from the Air

Pine Island has NO stop lights. there is one four-way stop sign at the very center of the island. The municipalities consist of Matlacha (the colorful arty town that everyone HAS to go through to get on the island. St. James City is to the left at the four way stop. Bokeelia is to the right. The island is less than 16 miles from tip to tip.

KOA Encore RV Park, Pine Island, Florida

January 28th 2010
We're about to leave Pine Island to head for Turtle Beach on Siesta Key in the Sarasota area. There was a time, perhaps when our idea of "camping" was a tent on an island in northern Lake George, when we (I) snobbishly dismissed KOA's as "commercial," crowded, and generally unappealing. Well that erroneous aversion has come 360 for us now that we are in our 5th year of winter RV "camping!" The ... read more

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