While on Marco Island:

This 4 by 6 mile island is famous for its 3 miles of powdery pink sand beaches and has all of the restaurants, water sports and shopping you will need on the island itself. The Island has kept its tropical roots, old Marco resembling Key West. You will find a pristine, upmarket community with no billboards or fast food signs. Superb fresh seafood is available locally, as are cycling paths, nature walks and tours, and water sports, including fishing, shelling, kayaking, parasailing, rental cruise boats, swamp boats and day and night chartered catamaran cruises.

Life on the Island:

Is like living in a nature preserve, with pelicans fishing off the dock, ospreys nesting atop buoys, dolphins in the waterways and the beaches home to abundant sea life and birds. The year around average temperature is 77 degrees (25° celcius), rarely exceeding 87 degrees (30° celcius) even in the summer and cooled by ocean breezes.

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In the vicinity:

Are some other famous Florida beaches, including Sanibel and Captiva Islands 40 miles to the North. Marco Island is also adjacent to some unusual national parks and nature preserves which have preserved the surrounding environment the way it was 10,000 years ago - including the renowned Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve and Corkscrew Wildlife Sanctuary. The greater Naples-Ft Myers area offers the attraction of Fifth Avenue shopping, some of the nation's best public golf courses, the Naples Zoo, numerous restaurants, shopping centers and factory outlets, as well as side trip accessibility to Disney World, Miami and the Florida Keys.

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