Sanibel and Captiva Islands: One of the Best Places to Vacation in Florida

If you want a great vacation in sunny Florida, and you want a change from hussle and bussle of Disney World and Universal Studio's, you should check out Sanibel and Captiva Islands.

Called Florida's best kept secrets the island are less than an hour away from Fort Myers. Travel back in time to the per Disney Florida to one of the three best shelling beaches in the world. You and the family can enjoy twenty miles of shoreline with shells from well over four hundred different species.

After a day at the beach you and your love ones can head back inland to "Ding" 5,000- acre wetland and home to a host of alligators and shorebirds, it's a tropical paradise that is best viewed by bike which are available for renting.

If bike riding and wetlands is not your thing there are several family activities like boat rides so you and the family can watch dolphins and the elusive manatees, or take a tour to the Bailey- Matthews Shell Museum a museum solely dedicated to shells.