The coastal, pristine barrier islands that are now Lovers Key State Park on the Gulf Coast in Southwest Florida once were ...

Johnson State Park. I was once stranded on Lovers Key during a hurricane. I had sailed a small boat from Fort Myers Beach in the summer of 1999, and Hurricane Floyd was blasting through the Atlantic.

I could hear the surf pounding the shore of Lovers Key State Park before I even ... Key State Park. This photo was taken in 2010, more than a decade before Hurricane Ian destroyed the pavilion ...