Our writers
Who writes this
Everything published about Marco Island on this site carries a name. Here is who those names belong to, what each of them covers, and how to read everything they have written.
Delia Fontaine
Senior Editor
Beat: Things to Do, Beaches, Best Time to Visit
Delia has edited Southwest Florida coverage for twelve years and owns the practical pages here: which beach lot is county, which one needs a Civic Association pass, what the Jolley Bridge does to a February afternoon, and what a storm actually changed. She quotes fees as bands because the city and county revise them, and she says when a number is unconfirmed.
4 guides · 3 news posts
Wyatt Coombs
Boating & Fishing Editor
Beat: Boat Tours, Ten Thousand Islands, Fishing Charters
Wyatt ran charters out of Goodland before he wrote about them and still reads this coast by the tide rather than the calendar. He covers rentals, guides, the passes and the backcountry, and he is blunt about shoal water, idle zones and boats sold as something they are not. If the wind is wrong, he will tell you to go tomorrow.
3 guides · 3 news posts
Imani Brooks
Nature & Wildlife Editor
Beat: Wildlife, Beaches, Boat Tours
Imani writes the island's living calendar: burrowing owls on the vacant lots from February, loggerheads on the sand from May, manatees in the canals when the Gulf cools. She has volunteered on nest monitoring, reports from Rookery Bay and the refuge waters, and treats federal wildlife rules as the law they are rather than as etiquette.
3 guides · 2 news posts
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