{"id":6538,"date":"2011-06-05T21:50:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2020-01-21T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:07:01","slug":"bobcat-on-north-captiva-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/05\/bobcat-on-north-captiva-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobcat On North Captiva Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bobcat<\/a><\/p>\n

I was stunned as I watched a young, wild bobcat casually stroll along a stretch of beach on North Captiva Island. The scene was so surreal, I couldn’t take\u00a0my eyes off this beautiful beast. My heart skipped a few beats\u00a0so I fumbled with my camera. Click, click. Yes! I felt so fortunate to \u00a0have captured her in two photos.<\/p>\n

\"Bobcat<\/a><\/p>\n

My good friend Diane and I took her boat out for an island hopping adventure with her trusty dog Callie this weekend. Within 10 minutes of anchoring off North Captiva, Diane saw this gorgeous cat and held well behaved Callie tightly on her leash. We have never had any bobcats attacks so we weren’t afraid she would turn on us but then again, a bobcat is a wild animal. We didn’t want to disturb her in any way to make her feel threatened or nervous so we stayed out of her way so she could go on her merry way to find a nice rat appetizer before her raccoon tartar lunch.<\/p>\n

\"Cayo<\/a><\/p>\n

Still in awe over our sighting, we hopped on over to Cayo Costa to see what the south tip had in store for us. Live CLOUDY PERIWINKLES!<\/p>\n

\"Periwinkles<\/a><\/p>\n

I mean llllllots <\/em>of PERIWINKLES.<\/p>\n

\"Perwinkle<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s cutie Diane (check out our Cayo Costa Camping<\/a><\/strong> adventure last year) and her sweet dog Callie….<\/p>\n

\"Di<\/a><\/p>\n

So we (including Callie) had to phoon<\/a><\/strong> with Di’s boat.<\/p>\n

\"phooning<\/a><\/p>\n

We may not have found a boat load of shells but we sure had a “wild”, adventurous girls day on the calm gulf waters. Thanks Di!!<\/p>\n

\"simply<\/a><\/p>\n

PS- You can only get to North Captiva and Cayo Costa by boat.\u00a0I thought I’d add a map to show you where these islands are in relation to Sanibel.\u00a0North Cap is marked by the purple circle in the top left corner and Cayo Costa is one island north of North Cap.<\/p>\n

\"North<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was stunned as I watched a young, wild bobcat casually stroll along a stretch of beach on North Captiva Island. The scene was so surreal, I couldn’t take\u00a0my eyes off this beautiful beast. My heart skipped a few beats\u00a0so I fumbled with my camera. Click, click. Yes! I felt so fortunate to \u00a0have captured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1170,1169,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bobcat","category-cloudy-periwinkle","category-north-captiva","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Bobcat-on-Florida-Beach.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-1Hs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29238,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions\/29238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}