Hurricane Ian 30 Days Later - Cabbage Key, Captiva, North Captiva, Cayo Costa

Here's a look at Cabbage Key, North Captiva, Captiva, and Cayo Costa 30 days after Hurricane Ian hit.

[@cliff9745]

You know what I really like about your videos, you don’t spend the first 15 minutes blabbering about you, your pet, etc., you just show us what is fascinating (and sad) to see in the aftermath of Ian- and the port/dock clean-up videos are very interesting. Thank you for real CONTENT and for this important insight into what our neighbors 2 hours south are living through. Nice job.

[@CaribbeanCastaways]

Totally agree, just want to give you the real stuff. Cheers!

[@oday3514]

For ground zero for the storm, it all looks surprisingly good! Yes, the foliage is gone or brown, but that will come back. It is in very good shape compared with FMB.

[@CaribbeanCastaways]

Yeah it did pretty good relatively speaking. The south side of the got the worst with the surge.

[@debbieescobar6267]

You have no idea how healing your vids are for me! Now I know the world is good again…Cabbage Key restaurant is open and more importantly, the tortoises survived!!😘

[@sv5799]

GREAT Video.. We rented a house on Pine Island in St James City for years on the water with a boat lift till it sold. Boated those waters and Island's every day. Been to Cabbage Key many times. Glad to see it survived .. Thanks for sharing..

[@CaribbeanCastaways]

My pleasure. We tried to go to St. James City yesterday but the traffic was terrible, couldn't get there.

[@justyp]

Hey there! Thanks for the overview! Can you guys put a drone over north Captiva? Lots of homes there.

[@CaribbeanCastaways]

I'll see what I can do! Do you have a place out there? I could try to fly over it.

[@henryhawkins1194]

That would be great, I have a friend, ex-pilot for American Airlines who lives in the house just north and next to the airstrip in N. Captiva in the house with the reddish color roof. Hope his house is OK.

[@luvsabeach7952]

Never realized there were so many homes on Cabbage Key!

[@CaribbeanCastaways]

Rental cottages.

[@High-Alpha]

Wow I can't believe how good Cabbage Key looks! They definitely did some work out there. I thought for sure that place would be nearly wiped out. Is the water tower where you can go up the stairs still there! Thanks for the footage!

[@CaribbeanCastaways]

Yeah, all in all it did pretty well. The water tower is still there, but we did go up it.

[@davidmangold1838]

I am curious if you have a UAV/drone pilot license?

[@jondoe3056]

I could almost see my dollar in the Bar, just out of sight. Was just there in mid August

[@CaribbeanCastaways]

It's a great place.

[@judycoyne7818]

Doesn’t look too bad there considering!

[@CaribbeanCastaways]

That's what we thought as well.