Nature and Animals

The Burnt Store Marina Dog Park had a great holiday season with our dog pictures with Santa and participating in the party around the marina during the Boat Decorating contest night. We appreciate all the people who came out to support the dog park. Lori Luscher, one of our board members, managed our first annual […]

WHITE PELICANS IN FLIGHT BY RICK READ The American White Pelican is a large, white waterbird with a 9-foot wingspan. It has a white body with black flight feathers, a huge yellow bill, and throat pouch. They breed in colonies on inland lakes in western states and up into Canada. During breeding season, the tops […]

KELLY AND MARILYN WEBBER – WINNERS OF THE BIG MEG TOOTH With the cool weather we are experiencing, water temperatures dropping into the 60s, snook and redfish have moved to warmer water, but seatrout are holding in areas of sea grass and sand holes. Many anglers are reporting that the bite is more toward the […]

February continues our dry season, with little or no rain expected. Daytime temperatures are historically in the 70s into the 80s, with evening lows unpredictable and possibly flirting with frost. The first few months of the year tend to be a seesaw of temperatures. This causes plants to be stressed and vulnerable to frost and […]

The Burnt Store Marina Dog Park is celebrating their one-year anniversary this January. We sure have come a long way from a field of weeds to a beautiful park for our wonderful dogs, and their owners to meet and play. We continue to try to improve the park as we increase funds. We appreciate our […]

The Tricolored Heron is mostly blue, with a white belly and a brownish back. Sometimes the white extends up the underside of its throat. At 26” the Tricolored Heron is slightly longer than the more common Little Blue Heron. It has several hunting techniques that make it unique. It will fly over shallow water, dragging […]

Many anglers who fish Charlotte Harbor prefer to fish with live bait. Excluding harbor shrimp, there are fifteen species of bait fish that roam the harbor. The following bait fish have been identified as spending some part of their life cycle in Charlotte Harbor. Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission have sampled the harbor to identify […]

Like many wintertime Florida residents, my early years of fishing were spent trailering fishing boats around the Great Lakes in pursuit of salmon, walleye, bass, and perch – with great success, I might add, bringing countless hours of enjoyment over the last 60 years or so. Well, then, what could be so different about fishing […]

It is a Lee County law, as well as a Burnt Store Marina rule, that all dogs are to be on leashes whenever outside residences. The open lot at the corner of Cape Cole and Matecumbe is not a dog park. The Commodore residents own the whole part that is landscaped. Please keep your dogs […]

Growing zones are U.S. Dept. of Agriculture designations to indicate average minimum temperatures. We are located in subtropical zone 9b/10a, a transition area. A true tropical plant shows distress when temperatures fall below 50 degrees. We can experience lows that will kill a tropical plant to the ground. If the roots survive, the plant will […]