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Palm Island Resort BeachHunter.net Florida beaches: reviews, photos, info. | ||||
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Palm Island Resort and Beaches
The nice thing about staying at Palm Island Resort is that it's a fairly self-contained community. It's also very quiet. The only automobiles allowed in the resort are service trucks working on construction projects or repairs and maintenance. If you bring your car over on the ferry you'll have to park it in the lot at the entrance to the resort. You'll use a golf cart, a bicycle or your own two feet to get around the resort (you can't take the resort golf carts off the resort to explore the rest of the island though. Bummer.) There is one restaurant at the resort (and it's a very good one). Leaving the island for a few hours for dinner or to pick up some groceries is easy, just take the ferry. All rental units are within walking distance of the beach. My favorite place to go while I was staying at the resort for a few days was up to the north point at Stump Pass. It was a relaxing 10 minute ride via golf cart. I made the trip one night after a late dinner. It was really quiet and dark. I saw several meteors streak across the sky. Below are some photos and videos of my little adventure at the Palm Island Resort. And if you'd like to see where I stayed, have a look at some photos and video of my Palm Island Resort beach rental unit. |
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| Palm Island beaches have a light gray sand with patches of shells. |
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| A basic assortment of shells washes up on Palm Island beaches. |
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| A couple takes a late afternoon walk on Palm Island Resort beaches. Note that further down the beach there are fewer houses and more trees--that's Don Pedro Island State Park. You can walk to the state park in about an hour if you like. |
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| The receding tide leaves pools of water behind filled with shells and interesting things. This was a very quiet spring evening. I was almost the only one on the beach to see the sunset. |
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| There are plenty of beach houses sitting directly on the beach. My unit had a great view of the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| A typical sand/shell road on Palm Island. It's a very relaxed life with nature all around. |
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| This is a typical Palm Island "superhighway." Low stress commuting from beach to restaurant to "home." |
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| A nice assortment of shells awaits beachcombers. |
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| Bikes are a great way to get around on Palm Island Resort. |
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| The road on Palm Island dead-ends here at the beach overlooking Stump Pass. On the other side is Stump Pass State Park and Englewood Beach. The dead trees are Australian Pines which have been intentionally killed in a program to eradicate invasive species. |
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| Above: Volunteers with the Charlotte County Shorebird Steward program and scientists from Charlotte County keep a close eye on nesting birds and other wildlife. On this morning they were investigating reports of an injured bird. |
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| The quiet beaches of Palm Island are a favored nesting ground for many shorebirds, terns, and skimmers. |
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| Above: A fairly typical Palm Island beach house. I photographed this one because I love the way they have trained the flowering bougainvillea in an arch. |
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| Above: Although the beach sand on Palm Island is largely pure white quartz crystals, it also contains enough dark fossilized material to make it look like gray sand. The amount of broken shell in the sand is low. The sand is very clean. |