Indians Found Safe Haven on Sanibel, just like you!

Thoughts of Sanibel remember emerald green water, birds, light breeze, palm trees and sweeping views. An archaeological site is certainly not the first thought that this distance has a tropical resort, but is of fundamental importance for the understanding of an 'island, the target has become world-famous holiday.

About 5,000 years rushing rivers deposited a huge amount of mud in the Gulf of Mexico, tropical islands form along the barrierSouth West Coast of Florida. His newly formed islands and bays were flooded with a generous supply of fish and seafood, the archaic peoples from all over South Florida, which has attracted a permanent settlement was founded. These people were the first ancestors of the Calusa Indians.

The Calusa villages established near their source of life - water. There was enough land for the members to increase the height of the stalk of the plant needed to feed everyone, so that the Calusa looked to the bays, creeks, riversand golf, and a buffet of shrimp, crab, trout, snook and transformed almost all seafood.

Without worrying where the next meal would come, the Calusa were free, a complex society that have been created with amazing speed. It 'was a two-caste, well-armed, militarily highly structured and an extended family of Adel. Ordinary people provided food, dig canals and has worked in the construction of large and complex water works shellSystems.

From these roots sprang from Iceland Sanibel, which we know and love.

In 1963, a dam was built three miles from the mainland on the east side of Sanibel. Shortly after the bridge was finished, recorded and Sanibel City Council approved zoning laws strong, with most of the island set aside for protection. Result of the country in Sanibel is designated as a natural medium, kept under the protection of two 'island ecology andWildlife. This protection and conservation of land and wildlife make Sanibel Island Resort is a unique, unlike any other in Florida and with few competitors within the continental United States.

Come and enjoy paradise and experience the difference Sanibel!