Thursday, March 22, 2007

Looking east from Wiggins Pass


A couple of aerial views of the neighborhood and the Cocohatchee River leading out to Wiggins Pass




Gulf Harbor is one of the original North Naples Florida neighborhoods developed in 1954 (which is OLD by Naples standards) by longtime resident John Pulling (think Airport-Pulling Rd). It was a 10 acre parcel carved out of the mangroves of the Cocohatchee River and Wiggins Pass and is still surrounded on 3 sides by mangroves. From it's small fishing village past with cozy winter cottages to present day year round water lover's paradise with new homes being built, Gulf Harbor is like no other neighborhood in North Naples.The purpose of this site is to preserve the history of the neighborhood for generations to come.These are a couple of old pics of Wiggins Pass marina back in the 60's.You can almost see Gulf Harbor in the upper right hand corner of 1st pic. I look forward to hearing stories from the oldtimers and hopefully getting into some of their old scrapbooks and photo albums. Please feel free to post your ideas.