Living on Marco canals for 45 years was like living in an aquarium where you could be mesmerized by watching all the sea life. Hardly a time that you didn’t see something going on in the canals like watching dolphins using their feeding skills, tarpon rolling or going down to the dock at night to watch the fish feed under the snook light. The explosive attacks by the snook were enough to raise the hairs on the back of your neck.
Now you don't see the snook lights. They are gone. Why? because there aren't any fish to come to the lights. The dolphins don't waste their time coming up the canals, the snook are gone, the snapper are gone, the ladyfish are gone and even the catfish can't survive our polluted waters.
Those folks who could have made a difference for the last many years have taken a blind eye to the disastrous metamorphosis that was transpiring in front of their very eyes into what is the demise of what used to be a flourishing healthy habitat.
If only our leadership over the last several years instead of what appears to be a fanatical goal of the commercializing of Marco Island could have balanced with the preservation of nature our what once was a beautiful island, we would be so much better off. The 'Stewardship' of Marco Island has indeed been nonexistent. Oh, the lust of the mighty buck has riled Mother Nature once again.
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