It’s that time of year again when great tennis comes to Sanibel Island at the Dunes!

The 19th Annual SCCF Tennis Tournament begins on Saturday, April 9th and runs through Sunday, April 10th with an opening reception on Friday night, April 8th.

Men’s, Women’s and Mixed Doubles are the categories and the deadline for entries is Wednesday, April 6th.

A silent auction will display items for bidding all weekend.

To find out more details, you can visit:  SCCF Annual Tennis Tournament 2011

Hope to see you there!

Have a great weekend,

Sandy and Rob

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Hey everyone,

Such an exciting month of incredible music ahead of us, as we kick off our nationally recognized classical music festival this Saturday, March 5th, right here on Sanibel Island.

This being the Silver Anniversary (25 years!), there is an amazing line-up of artists that will grace the stage with 7 concerts over the next 4 weeks performing piano, chamber music, recital and vocal ensemble.

You can find out all the details, including times and dates, over at their website:  Sanibel Music Festival Schedule

All of the concerts will take place at 8pm at the beautiful Sanibel Congregational United Church of Christ.

Hope to see you all there!

Have a great weekend,

Sandy and Rob

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It’s that time of year again!

Our beautiful annual tradition at the Sanibel Community House located at 2173 Periwinkle Way, where the Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club puts on their amazing Shell Fair and Show every first week in March.

This year is no different and all the fun begins on Thursday, March 3rd at 9am with hours on Thursday and Friday from 9am-5pm and runs until Saturday, March 5th from 9am-4pm.

Between the Live Shell Exhibit, the art and crafts demonstrations and the juried show the judges more than 50 different categories, there is a LOT of fun to be had!

Find out more at Sanibel Community House Events

See you there!

Sandy and Rob

p.s. Yep, we sell real estate on Sanibel Island… this much is true!  ;)

Yes, in just one week, the Second Annual Uncorked Winter Wine Festival will take place!

Naturally, the proceeds are for a great cause and therefore, we thank the Sanibel-Captiva Optimist Club for their efforts once again this year in helping to fund children’s cancer treatment, as well as donating children’s educational scholarships.

Everything is set to begin Thursday, Feb. 24 from 5 to 9 p.m. at Lily & Co. Jewelers (across Tarpon Bay Road from Bailey’s General Store).  Obviously, there will be wonderful wines to taste, as well as cooking demonstrations, live music and a silent auction that among other prizes will include a 4-person aircraft tour of the islands.

Tickets are $30 per person ($25 for the designated driver).

You can read more details about the big event right here:  Sanibel Uncorked Winter Wine Festival 2011

Hope to see you there!

Sandy and Rob

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Calling all families and island locals!

What was started years ago by our beloved Sam Bailey, who passed away last year, has been re-ignited and is more family friendly than ever!

Of course, we are talking about the Annual Sanibel-Captiva Chamber Community Fair and Retail Expo… the best local business networking event of the year.

This Sunday for 3 hours from 11am to 2pm at the Sanibel Community House at 2173 Periwinkle Way, there will be more than 60 retail vendors, wine tasting, a bounce house and lots of activities for the kids, as well as great food and an emcee + DJ!  Bailey’s General Store will be providing the free food and drinks and we thank them!!

This is going to be a great event that you will not want to miss!

Local Businesses, as well as many non-profits, always attend and help spread their success around the island.

Be sure to stop by midday to support our island’s livelihood and show that you are an active member of this community!

We can’t wait to see you there!

Have a great week,

Sandy and Rob

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Hey everybody!

Welcome to THE Sanibel Captiva Real Estate Blog’s new look!!

Soooo, what do you think?  We’re really excited to start off a fresh new year with a fresh new look and we would love your feedback…

Our team has got a LOT of new things going on this year for our customers and we’ve hit the ground running here in 2011 so far… Whew!

Our web team has been hard at work maintaining the integrity of our past great content about Sanibel and Captiva, while providing a little bit of “familiarity” over there in the right hand column giving some consistency to our readers, so that you know you’re in the right place when you land here!

We don’t want to lose any of our avid readers due to landing on this page and thinking that it’s not still Rob and I here communicating with you, so you will see the same links and photos for your reference… We’ll add to them over the course of the year, but for now, we’ve kept them just the same.

So, this new format has a great (and OBVIOUS!) comment box after every post and we fully expect you guys to use it!

Give us your feedback and constructive comments (and criticisms, if need be) because it will only help us make this blog a better resource for you and everyone else reading it… so comment away!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Sandy and Rob