La Costa Island is an island in Lee County in southwest Florida, located just offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. It lies just north of North Captiva Island, separated by a channel called Captiva Pass. Like North Captiva, Captiva and Sanibel Islands, La Costa is a barrier island to Pine Island (to the east of Captiva and north of Sanibel).
It is home to Cayo Costa State Park and Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Coordinates: 26°40′19″N 82°14′49″W / 26.67194°N 82.24694°W / 26.67194; -82.24694
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“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)