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Hazy view of an auto ferry leaving the dock and heading out on San Carlos Bay.

New modern cottages were being built on Sanibel after the advent of the Sanibel Causeway in 1963.

The Bailey Dock, with a storage building at its end, extended out into San Carlos Bay at the foot of Bailey Road until Hurricane Donna in 1960. Construction for the Sanibel Causeway is not yet present, and in the distance the Sanibel Lighthouse can be seen as the photo looks eastward out towards the Gult of Mexico.

New modern cottages like Hiers By the Sea were being built on Sanibel after the advent of the Sanibel Causeway in 1963.

New modern cottages were being built on Sanibel after the advent of the Sanibel Causeway in 1963.

The ferry "Best" approaches the Sanibel docks in 1960. The Best was Sanibel's first ferry, often its only ferry, running for the Kinzie Line from 1928 until the Causeway opened in 1963.

The Cotoma of Omaha, GA, which has been one of the Sanibel ferries, the Islander, before the Causeway opened in 1963, putting the Kinzie Line out of business. The Islander/Cotoma was scrapped in 1985. It had been in the Kinzie fleet from 1936 to 1963.

The Sanibel light and keeper's quarters in the 1960s, at the east end of the island.