Boating is...by boatguy Ed Fort Myers Beach is a satirical site!

What happened to the beach area restaurants? Maybe there were toooo many waterfront watering holes and restaurants but to lose sooo many is spooky. I know the beach road had a little to do with the decline of one or two. Boot Kicken' view! Okay, I'll give you Boot Kicken's at the Channel Mark because they never had a clue as most operators of that hard luck joint haven't. Who'd name a waterfront Bar; Boot Kicken's and it not be a country place? Who can forget the 4X8 sheet of plywood with one word sprayed painted on it,  'OPEN' and the sign was propped up in the back of a pick-up truck. Makes you want to eat, drink and ride a Bull, huh? So, just before the end,  I asked the owner the one question everyone was asking me, why would someone with so little experience open a 'high nut' restaurant where no one else had made it. She hung her head and said, "I couldn't believe I could lose with that view." She didn't hi...

“I'm an American,” said the bag boater member as he poured another beer from my kegerator. He was answering an illegal question from Stink-pot Dino. Illegal because the discussion of politics has been outlawed by by-law in the 'Dead End Canal Yacht Club' clubhouse (my garage). “I knew it, another Loon Dimocrat,” said Dino to his 'R' side of the garage, “but what would you expect from a blow boater, college professor.” “We had to recruit some intelligentsia because you and yours were dragging down the club's IQ average. The yachting counsel demands a minimum of 50 or they'd pull our charter,” I said. “Intelligence...he's drinking that cool-aide you serve! Pabst Blue Ribbon should be banned along with fake Dimocrat News. Leave it to a cheap bag boater,” Dino shouted. The weighted yellow penalty flag flew past Dino's nose so close that he had to jump back and shout 'watch that shit'! “You're penalized 15 yards for ille...

I've always been suspicious of the stories coming out of the Arizona Veterans Hospital because I have been so well treated by our Lee County, Miami and St. Pete VA. Since they have opened the new Outpatient Clinic in Cape Coral/North Fort Myers, I feel even better served.  During the off-season months it is possible to get an appointment within days but in-season the available appointments are far apart. When you drive through the expansive parking lot in front of the nearly new, huge OPC the reasons for the difficulties are evident. Every other auto has out-of-state plates and these snowbirds vets show up and slow up Florida and Arizona facilities. They have every right to be here and get care but why they bitch so much about wait times is ironical. It is self-evident that older men are cranks. Some younger ones, too but a lot of that is PTSD related. What do I mean by 'cranks'? Some people are cranky all the times and a little paranoid, too. They feel th...