Cooking fire at Duffy's Creek, 1940

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Esperanza Woodring tends a cooking fire at Duffy's Creek in the mangroves on the north side of Sanibel in the 1940s. Fishing guides often cooked lunch for their party while fishing, and she holds a mangrove branch with coon oysters to roast over the fire. Duffy's Creek was named for an early homesteader, and is within the J. N. "D'ing" Darling National Wildllife Refuge.

Places:

Sanibel (Fla.)
Captiva Island (Fla.)

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