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A view of the Woodring dock with net drying racks

The Woodring family Dock at the mouth of Tarpon Bay on Woodring Point, looking into San Carlos Bay on the north shore of Sanibel. The dock is used recreationally, for guiding trips, and for bait shrimp collection. The Woodring family homesteaded on the Point in 1888, and generations of the family have been fishermen and guides on the island.

Woodring Point neighbors stand in front of the Woodring homestead in 1942. The house burned in the 1970s.

Woodring Point neighbors pose for the camera in the 1040s. Esperanza Woodring is fourth from left, Sam Woodring III second from left. Cast nets hang to dry from the net shed behind the group.

Esperanza Woodring and Tom Wood, Woodring Point neighbors, share fresh mangrove coon oysters, using the dock for their table. Wood was the first J. N. "D'ing" Darling National Wildlife Refuge manager, when it was at first called the Sanibel National Refuge. He lived at the far end of the point, behind them in the distance to the west, in an old Woodring family homestead.

Harrison Woodring, Floretta Woodring and Sam Woodring in the 1930s, standing in the Woodring yard on the Sanibel point.