This blog was created in response to the deterioration of the quality of information on several sites, including Trip Advisor and Best of Sanibel Captiva. The second is an honest business that exists to support on island business subscribers for whom they supply promotional services and advertising. It does not purport to be unbiased or independent. As a member of their forum I have stopped posting due to the persistent pattern of deletion of any criticism of any aspect of Sanibel and Captiva Islands, most significantly any island business that is not delivering value for guests and visitors. Trip Advisor is a large and useful site that I have contributed to for years. At this time I am a Local Expert for Sanibel and Captiva. How much longer I will stick with it I can't say. The Sanibel Forum has been taken over by a group of people with business interests on the islands, notably members of SCVRMA - an association of rental agents that handle condo and house rentals on the island. Others provide services to on island businesses, including The Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce. They have hopelessly compromised the integrity of the forum and the Sanibel and Captiva information in general. In order to provide essentially commercial free information on two I islands that I have come to know and love, I have started this blog. I will be inviting a handful of members to join me. They are long time visitors to the islands and offer a wealth of information about things to see and do and places to stay - and most importantly, places to avoid because the business is not up to snuff. I have no financial interest in Sanibel or Captiva. I am purely a visitor. This site will not have any advertising and I will not allow promotion of businesses. It will have honest opinions, mostly mine. You may not agree and that's fine with me. The blog is mine and it's content is informational and editorial. I hope you enjoy wandering thru the posts and can gain some useful information from Sanibel Captiva Perspectives!
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Tourmaline, I will follow you wherever you go! This will become THE place to get Sanibel/Captiva unbiased information. Too bad the TA forum got plagued by people whose sole interest is to promote their line of work and never to help visitors. Let's make this blog what the TA forum used to be!
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