Our writers
Who writes this
Everything published about Sanibel on this site carries a name. Here is who those names belong to, what each of them covers, and how to read everything they have written.
Harriet Lowell
Senior Editor
Beat: Beaches, Things to Do, Attractions
Harriet has covered the Lee County islands for eleven years and owns the pages that decide a reader's day: which lot charges what, which causeway crossing is tolled, what reopened this season and what is still a bare lot. She quotes fees as bands because the city revises them, and she will say plainly when a place could not be confirmed.
4 guides · 3 news posts
Caleb Nystrom
Nature & Shelling Editor
Beat: Nature & Wildlife, Beaches, Birding
Caleb reads this island by tide chart and moon phase and has been shelling its beaches since before the causeway was rebuilt. He writes the refuge, the birds and the shell beds, and he is unbending about the live-collection ban: if there is an animal inside it, it goes back in the water. He would rather you found one good shell legally than a bucket of trouble.
3 guides · 3 news posts
Rosa Villanueva
Family & Practical Editor
Beat: Family Activities, Beaches, Best Time to Visit
Rosa plans island weeks for people travelling with children and grandparents in the same car, which on Sanibel means bikes, shade, tide times and restrooms. She tests the things that fail quietly — the boardwalk that ends in soft sand, the rental with one parking space, the boat that will not take a pushchair — and reports them before you book.
3 guides · 2 news posts
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