* Distances listed are direct linear distances, actual travel distance may be different.
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Senior adult, family owned and operated for 31 years. Wi-fi hot spots, planned activities, spacious recreation hall, billiard room, heated pool, horseshoe pit, bocce ball, shuffleboard, bingo, dances, cruises, craft classes, water aerobics, line-dancing classes, exercise classes, gardening club, various card games, weekly coffee hour, men's and women's luncheon outings. Three laundries, spacious individual shower rooms, new fenced doggie play area, walk to golf, shopping nearby. Near blueways for kayaking, 20 min. Drive to bike park, 30 min. Drive to beaches, Prairie Pines Preserve 1/2 mile away with hiking, horse and llama trails, bird-watching. The downtown river district is a 15 min. Drive with a butterfly sanctuary, shopping, restaurants, and the Red-Sox spring training stadium. The Minnesota Twins spring training stadium is about a 30 min. Drive.
Canoe the Peace River in Arcadia-day trip. The area is loaded with fossils which are easily found on the river bed.
Ft. Myers Beach offers nature tours on waverunners, parasailing, and deep-sea fishing tours.
Sanibel Island is a 45 minute drive from here. The island is connected by road to Captiva where there is world-renowned shelling and a shelling museum. There is also a nature kayaking tour on Sanibel which meanders through the mangroves. Also on Sanibel is the The J. N. ''Ding'' Darling National Wildlife Refuge with exotic plants, animals, and birds, including THE WORLD FAMOUS ROSEATE spoonbill totally pink in color.
If you want to experience old Florida, you can leave the entrance of Sunseekers and travel south on old 41 to the Florida everglades. There are several canals on the roadside where one can easily count 75-100 gators in the wild between here and Homestead. There are also free roadside parks for pictures of gators in their natural habitat. If you want a ride of a lifetime without paying the hefty price of an amusement park, you can jump upon an airboat and see Florida birds, gators, turtles and natural vegetation while skimming at high speeds across the 6 inches of water through tiny carved canals in Florida sawgrass of the world famous EVERGLADES.
Key Largo is two hour drive away where you can snorkel some of the most beautiful coral reefs in the world. Boats are available with equipment and teaching for the most interesting and exciting adventures of your life.
Our office staff has in the past taken numerous people on day trips to these locations.
Your stay at Sunseekers is economical and all of these places are within driving distance and a one day trip.
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