Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Great Thread Big Bend. Love the land and all of your pictures.
Would have to put some sort of elevated blind at it, or shoot through inside yard fence REAL carefully!Id be shootin at em from the swimming pool :)
Bill, seeing as how you're familiar with the Captiva area you'll probably appreciate how much it has changed with the passage of time. When my dad found the shack back in the 70s the island was largely protected against development as a bird sanctuary, had not a lick of power running to it, and the only structures on it were a half-dozen or so old shacks. My Dad went in halfers with another friend and they got it for a whopping total of $30k / only cost each of them $15k. We ran an ANCIENT diesel generator for bare bones power before ultimately rigging up a couple of solar panels hooked to deep cell batteries to give us just enough juice to run an overhead fan or two and shower with water run through a passive solar water heater.N. Captiva is nice...
Sorry about the cabin... The lot is 3/4 of the value in the place and rebuilding would let us change some things anyway. Just to many irons in the fire when it comes to real estate and taking care of homes is getting old. That postage stamp lot in Florida would convert into several hundred acres in MO and I only have to fix stuff if and when I want to. My brother has a big place two blocks from our Florida house with a 37 foot pursuit out front. We'll just visit him.