This updated guide to the waterways of western Florida provides a useful tool for all cruising boaters - delighting passengers and armchair sailors as well with its good humoured text. It offers readers information on marina"s, shoreside attractions, water depths, facilities, anchorages, and local geography, while also covering the history and folklore of the region. From lovely Pine Island South to serene Gasparilla Island and Cabbage Key, this guide describes the splendour of the Withlacoochee, the Steinhatchee and the Suwannee rivers in the Big Ben area, the Ten Thousand Islands down south, and the intracoastal waterways in between. It covers the boating facilities of such towns as Tapron Springs, Dunedin, Clearwater, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Fort Myers, and Naples.