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Wildman_grafix 12-19-2025 11:09 AM


Originally Posted by 36Tango (Post 4940332)
We really enjoyed owning on a canal (we had houses on Delano and Del Rio Courts in the Yacht Club area) in CC from 2016 till 2022. It was when all of the crap came down the river with its nasty stench, killing tons of fish and birds that we decided to pull out. There were times that this brown, crappy water would extend up past the power lines, and down past the Sanibel lighthouse and even past Ft Myers Beach. Frankly, I got nervous that if the slowly developing ecological disaster got out, values would plummet. Since then we have visited southeast Florida many times. They really need to get the water quality problem figured out, but Big Sugar is in the way. It could be so beautiful with clean water.

Same thing happens this side but it is the space industry.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/t...a/87570492007/

https://www.enr.com/articles/62122-b...n-river-lagoon

Matt Trulio 12-19-2025 01:58 PM


Originally Posted by powerboatr (Post 4940285)
i have to be a smart ssss
when i saw the title
i thought about the canal videos in england
cruising the cut etc
about the narrow boat canals all through england and some in france.

ICW never came to mind, i guess it is a canal in spots :D

You're not wrong (and I piloted a cruiser on one of those canal cruises in the Brittany region of France ... it rocks) but the houses referenced are on 400 miles worth of canals that feed the ICW. Some homes are on the shores of the ICW, for sure, but a lot more—at least in Cape Coral—are along canals.

Merry Christmas.

powerboatr 12-20-2025 09:09 AM


Originally Posted by Matt Trulio (Post 4940340)
You're not wrong (and I piloted a cruiser on one of those canal cruises in the Brittany region of France ... it rocks) but the houses referenced are on 400 miles worth of canals that feed the ICW. Some homes are on the shores of the ICW, for sure, but a lot more—at least in Cape Coral—are along canals.

Merry Christmas.

we lived in Jax fl long time and pcola
Icw was nice.. and of course st John's river
few places got hmm skinny
miss it very much


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