Originally Posted by 36Tango

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.

Originally Posted by powerboatr

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

Originally Posted by Matt Trulio

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.