Matlacha and Pine Island Palm pics

[Mr.SamuraiSword]

For the first part of my vacation I stayed on Matlacha and went to Pine Island frequently.  Our rented cottage had only 2 palms, a coconut and an old washingtonia around 60ft. The dominant palm in the area is would be coconuts and royals.  suprisingly I saw few queens on Pine Island and even less on matlacha.  Here are some of the palms on Matlacha.  

The first coconuts I saw from the Ft Myers airport. These were in northern ft myers

Going over the Bridge to Cape coral

The washingtonia outside our cottage.  One of the tallest around.

tall coconut at the most fished bridge in the usa. Why did they trim it that bad though?

view from the fishing bridge onto Matlacha.

Tallest Miniature date palm Ive ever seen.  looks to be around 25-30ft

Possibly one of the healthiest coconuts on the island.

On pine island we went t bokeelia and saw some of the tallest coconuts that area had to offer.  Any 1989 survivors here?

A few interesting palmettos here as well.

A shot from a private beach.  Looks like hawaii from here!

naturalized coconuts were also common in the area.  This one was under one of of these palms.

These were by the street

back at our cottage at matlacha we caught stone crabs under the swaying coconut palm by the dock.  this was taken on palm sunday! 

The sunsets were great with the tall coconuts making the landscape complete.  

canals were usually with different palms or lined up royals but these coconuts looked great too

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Interesting cactus infested palmetto.

Some coconuts on pine island being grown probably for landscaping.

we left today for a friends house in Englewood.  Landscape is a lot different here with the queen palms and Miniature date palms being most popular here.  Still some coconuts are in the area and they look fine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mr.SamuraiSword]

some Other palms I saw on matlacha include Bottle palms, King palms, Key Thatch Palms, Various sabals, Spindle palms,

and 1 majesty palm.

 

 

 

 

[Palmaceae]

Good pictures, it is so nice to live in this area!

[PalmatierMeg]

Great photos. I worked for 17 years at a wildlife preserve on Little Pine Island, went to the P.O. in Matlacha for mail every weekday, then walked in Matlacha Park. Matlacha used to be more of a fishing village known for $2,000 trailer homes on $200,000 waterfront lots. Developers bought up the scruffy trailer parks, evicted the tenants so nowadays Matlacha boasts itself an art mecca. Traffic is appalling and I miss all the grizzled fisherfolk in their "Pine Island Reboks" (white plastic boots). Progress. 

Englewood, except for occasional warm microclimates, is much colder in winter than Pine Island or Cape Coral hence the change in palm plantings.