$20 a head Entrance Fee Goes to Sanibel & Captiva First Responders & Locals Rebuilding the Island. Once $20 or more is donated, your name will be on the list for Friday night! Ages 21+.

May you find strength in the outpouring of love and support from all of us that love you. I stepped ashore in 1982 when my dad bought a 1 bedroom condo at South Seas. I was 8, and yesterday I turned 48. I call myself a simple woman as there is not a more beautiful place in this world than you. I don’t need to climb the steps of the Pyramids or walk the Great Wall of China or see the Great Barrier Reef because I always had you. Why would you need to see anything else when you know your heart is already full of the place that makes you feel the most fulfilled? Bubble Bread, Mucky Duck grilled chicken sandwiches, Dead Wings from Lazy, drives to count aligators in Ding Darlig, the best damn breakfast God could offer at The Lighthouse Cafe, the smell of the island when you cross the causeway, the familiarity of Timbers, the YOLO in me, Village By The Sea where my parents built the house of my dreams, Baileys Hardware Department, Ozzie the fisherman who never wants people on his boat that cannot really fish, and lastly Danny Morgan’s “Old Captiva”.

You have given me everything Captiva...and now it’s our turn to give it back and rebuild with the love and beauty that you have brought all of us. I will look forward to the Chapel by the Sea’s first Christmas Eve service and I will look up into the stars and say thank you. Thank you for showing me that love is something you feel but when it’s destroyed you love it even more to bring it back to life!