Two things you can count on from Southwest Florida during the summer, which is fast-approaching? First, soul-sucking heat and humidity. Second, less traffic on the streets between Interstate 75 and the small Sunshine State cities that dot the Gulf Coast.
Going their separate ways for the summer, Fort Myers Offshore members will return in the fall.
The exception to this is Sarasota, which is just as hot as Fort Myers and Cape Coral and Naples during the summer, but never seems to get much of a break from the traffic, even when the snowbirds bail out of the state.
The exodus is as massive as it is predictable. All but a few members of the Fort Myers Offshore group, for example, are long gone, just as club leaders Tim and Cyndee Hill wanted to be last week. Yet their Skater 32B catamaran wasn’t quite ready for five months of fun on a small Indiana lake, so the Hills are still in town…