An island on my mind…
03 Aug 2009 Leave a Comment
Views from a rooftop lookout tower on North Captiva's Bayfront.
Many people come on and off of North Captiva thinking very little of the slowly and smoothly ticking days that seem to stream by over the years. Mark and I, and of course now Miranda, have made this island our home. Our own island in the sun if you will. Guests to the island are seeing the solace, the solitude, the rest that we see available on a daily basis… their own island time. The chance to hop off the jet stream of neverending activities and distractions that life on the “mainland” offers them.
As the world becomes more well connected, it may be with the internet, the text messaging, the ipodification of every second of every day and every moment of their lives, you can suddenly see the allure and advantage of North Captiva, if not for the beauty that the island offers, but every bit as much so for what it does not.
Many island folks over the years have cast out comments that they dislike changes to the island, do they dislike island change or just the inevitable passage of time? The changes of cultures, the evolutions of technology, are we ever really seeing an island change or does it just feel like that because it evolves so smoothly over time that we missed it happening, and thus if we don’t like it, did we just miss the boat?
Looking back now, 9 years of full-time life on this incredible island have actually flown by… life as one great adventure, an island protected from the tedious facts of life by miles of water. We have seen firsthand what a cherished community island life creates surrounded by the sea.
