Due to a beach renourishment project designed to strengthen and protect the shoreline between Blind Pass and Bowman's Beach Park, the Blind Pass Beach parking lot will be closed for staging equipment beginning tonight (Friday evening, November 21).

The project will place about 300,000 cubic yards of new sand along the northern stretch of Sanibel, from near the former Mad Hatter Restaurant to the western edge of Bowman’s Beach Park.

The sand will be collected by a hopper dredge from a state-approved offshore sand source located about 8.3 nautical miles west of Captiva Island.

The project will strengthen the areas that need it most—specifically around: • the former Castaways location • the Sanibel-Captiva seawall • the Clam Bayou breach area

These areas experienced the most signifi

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