Florida: Fort Myers/Naples, SunStream Hotels & Resorts - Family, Luxury and Eco-Friendly. 
With natural, lightly developed white sand beach at the front door and raw Everglades wilderness at its back, Southwest Florida takes a rare stance among exotic wild things and their unique semi-tropical habitat. The destination tops the list for travelers on a quest to become one with extraordinary nature.
SunStream Hotels & Resorts’ properties lie strategic to the habitat that herons, egrets, pelicans, manatees, dolphin, fish, alligators, and bobcats call home. In their luxury all-suites collection, guests can find their own home-like habitat on the brink of pristine environment in Fort Myers Beach and Naples. Both destinations lie along the path of the Great Florida Birding Trail and within easy access of paddling, hiking, and biking trails.
Fort Myers Beach: Fort Myers Beach’s seven-mile-long Estero Island stretches between the Gulf of Mexico and Estero Bay State Preserve, waters protected for their abundant population of dolphin, manatees, and other marine life. Local ecotours take you into the bay to net and identify sea creatures and find seashells on nearby barrier islands. Santa Maria Harbour Resort, situated on the island’s bay side, provides easy access by kayak or boat to the preserve, part of the 90-mile Great Calusa Blueway Paddling Trail.
Nearby Lovers Key State Park is especially known for its gulf and estuary bird life. It lies on the Birding Trail and just minutes away from Santa Maria and two other SunStream properties - Pointe Estero Beach Resort and GullWing Beach Resort. Little Estero Island Critical Wildlife Area, a popular sandbar for birds making rest stops from a major flyway, fronts the south end of the beach, near Pointe Estero and GullWing. The side-by-side resorts also boast a natural mangrove-fringed lagoon at Fort Myers Beach’s most secluded strand.
DiamondHead Beach Resort lies closer to two other important environmental sites. At Matanzas Pass Preserve, nature-lovers can walk a boardwalk trail into mangrove and gumbo limbo forest. Bowditch Point Regional Preserve occupies the northern tip of Estero Island. Its beach provides shelter for gulls, terns, sandpipers, and many number of other shorebirds.
A short drive from the island, Bunche Beach Preserve is another birding hotspot along the paddling trail. The preserve is part of J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on nearby Sanibel Island, a birding paradise famous for its roseate spoonbills. Resort staff can also arrange day trips to Everglades National Park for tours by van and airboat.
Naples: 
The vast biological community known as the Everglades stretches east of Naples, beginning north of town at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, an Audubon preserve and gateway to the South Florida Birding Trail. Endangered wood storks nest in its ancient-growth bald cypress trees. In the depths of the Everglades, alligators, Florida panthers, bob cats, black bears, and nearly 350 species of birds lurk. National and state parks, preserves, and wildlife refuges provide access and recreational opportunities.
In Naples, Bellasera Hotel and Park Shore Resort balance guests’ wild experiences with a measure of luxury. Nearer to the resorts, eco-tourists can experience and learn about the environment on the beach at Delnor-Wiggins State Park and in the mangroves at The Conservancy Nature Center. Both are stops along the birding trail and offer kayaking, fishing, and wildlife viewing. The Nature Center encompasses a rehabilitation center where visitors see critters on the mend.
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