Cape Coral
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Cape Coral is about 50 years young and was the largest master-planned community in the United States, built up by two brothers who were quite the characters.

Lots of hype and high-pitched selling turned a piece of swampland with a few homesteads on it into our waterfront paradise with more canals than Venice.

Here are some books loaded with Cape Coral pictures: "Cape Coral, A Pictorial Perspective" and "Images of America, Cape Coral".

An interesting fact about Cape Coral is that it has the largest burrowing owl population in the state.

Some books about these adorable little owls include: "Hoot", a fiction account about a fight to protect burrowing owls, for young teens, and "Buffy the Burrowing Owl", a very cute picture book for younger kids.

"Hoot" was written by Carl Hiassen and was also made into a movie.

You may want to read Hiassen's other books, which are comedies full of madcap hijinks and set in South Florida.

Another local author is Randy Wayne White, who writes the Doc Ford crime and mystery books set in Sanibel.

It is considered one of the 5o worst movies ever made and it is quite the cheesy beach musical.

I thought it was quite hilarious, it has Phyllis Diller and Jayne Mansfield.

We had the "pleasure" of watching it, and it is so weird and so bad, it's good!

There is actually a "Weird Florida" book, which has strange stories of ghosts, aliens, legends, mysteries, beasts, villains, buildings, people, etc.

I'm hoping to take a trip to see some of these weird phenomena.

You may also want to get the "Florida's Fabulous" series of animals, birds, fish, shells, insects, and plants.

The photographs are beautiful, they have funny and interesting stories as well.

Cape Coral History
City of Cape Coral
The Calusas
Ponce de Leon
Seminole Wars
Homesteaders
Cape Coral Photos
Burrowing Owl Festival

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