Meantime, on the other shoreline, it's much quieter. Estero Bay, an 11,000-acre mixture of fresh and salt water, is all but forgotten. But that may be changing now, after a report says the health of that waterway is declining. Captain Jay Holloway does business on Estero Bay. The weather and the wildlife are his products.
Dolphins are here all the time.
Now the health of the entire bay has been brought into question. Reports stretching back six years by a research group called Estero Bay Marine Laboratory tell the tale of a waterway doing progressively worse. Holloway says it s no surprise. The report warns that sea grass is down 32-percent, due in part to the propellers of careless boaters. If you're plowing through here, that motor sticks down a long ways.