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Old 05-15-2020, 05:58 PM
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Boca Grande Island near Port Charlotte. You can schedule a tour of the back range lighthouse (pre-pandemic)
So sometimes Google rains on our parade. The images of Gasperilla looked so enticing but then my search switched to “The name Gasparilla was born from Jose Gaspar, a pirate who terrorized the coastal waters of West Florida during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Fond of calling himself "Gasparilla", Gaspar and his band of pirates lived a life of seizing and robbing merchant ships off the Gulf Coast until 1821”

Not all of history was happy for all :/