Posts Tagged ‘University of South Florida’

Only State In The Union Without SNOW!

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

The only state in the Union without snow!  If I were you I’d head to SW Florida as soon as you shovel your way out. I am watching the today show and Connecticut, Mass. and New York are getting hammered yet again. Atlanta is finally getting around. While you are home trying to stay warm and dreaming of SW Florida, call us and make that dream of palm trees and blue skies come true.

 We have sunshine, blue skies and oh yeah, NO SNOW!

The prices are right. Cape Coral waterfront or off water homes are unbelievably affordable. Fort Myers has wonderful communities sporting golf, over 55 active, or just living the Florida life style. The choices are varied and again prices you won’t see again.  

Today we watched across the street from our house a young osprey take flight for the first time. Wow, what a fun experience. If you want to know where all the birds go in the winter, just come to Florida.

Are you affected by the winter blues? Does the lack of sunshine and color affect your mood? Well, it used to make me grumpy when I lived in Pa. and Md.. Finally we moved to sunny Florida and the blue skies, blooming flowers in winter and it is a WOW.

So what are you waiting for? Give us a call and find out why this is such a great place to live, work and play.

Artfest Cape Coral 2011

Juried Art draws 1000 visitorsMy convertible, my sunglasses and the open road!

January flowers at the McDonald's drivethru

January flowers at the McDonald's drivethruPalm trees, blue sky and your boat.

Cape Coral and Fort Myers No Oil

Monday, August 9th, 2010

The Forbidden Zone of SW Florida. We in SW Florida are located in the best place possible in Florida. The #1 concern today is over the Gulf Oil spill. But, we are looking very good. Not only does the Gulf loop current stay away from our shore, BP has the leak under control and is cleaning the water.

I didn’t know until recently that their are organisms in the water that feed on the oil. Over time this helps dissipate what is not picked up.

A team of researchers from the University of South Florida, Scripps Oceanographic Institute, Florida State University, and the Minerals Management Service (Yang et al. 1999) identify SW Florida as the ” Forbidden Zone”.  This project placed over 300 passive drifters at various locations in the northern Gulf, from the Mississippi-Alabama border eastward to off Cedar Key, Florida, and tracked their changes in location via satellite.
Here is the link for the map of the passive drifters placed in the Gulf and the path that they took. This is what identified SW Florida as the “Forbidden Zone” http://www.fgcu.edu/CWI/files/Forbidden_Zone_CWI.pdf .

So, come on down. The water is clear, the weather is great and the deals are plentiful. Boating, fishing and our beaches are all top notch.