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Sweet Liberty Catamaran Sailing & Boat Tours

• 880 12th Ave. S. Naples, FL 34102
• (239) 793-3525

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Sweet Liberty Sailing Catamaran Tours Naples

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The Sweet Liberty Catamaran https://www.sweetliberty.com operates out of Naples Dock in Naples, FL. It is the largest sailing catamaran in Southwest Florida. This 53′ vessel offers awesome sunset, shelling, and sightseeing tours. Sweet Liberty Catamaran tours are mentioned as the #1 thing to do in Naples by the New York Times, local residents, and tourists to the area. The cruise is very affordable!

Sunset Cruise with Sweet Liberty

Sunset tours aboard Sweet Liberty sail nightly and are a family friendly adventure. The tours leave from Naples Dock, located in Crayton Cove in Old Naples at 880 12th Ave. S, Naples. The first 30-40 minutes of the cruise are outgoing from the dock and proceed down the Gordon River, passing Port Royal. This route will pass some of Naples largest multimillion dollar homes and yachts. Once out in open water, it is delightful to watch the sails go up on this beautiful catamaran.

We encourage you to bring along a small cooler or picnic basket (beer/wine are welcome). On the outgoing route guests see mangroves, dolphin, and other wildlife. The evening hours also offer a quiet time to enjoy a nice glass of wine while enjoying the beautiful Gulf waters. Watching the sun sink below the horizon with tones of orange and pink skies is breath taking.

The total time for this tour is approximately 3 hours.

Beach Island Shelling Cruise

The beach Island Shelling cruise aboard the Sweet Liberty leaves at 9:30 am and goes to Keewaydin Island. Keewaydin is a 7 mile barrier island with beautiful waters and is great for shelling. Guests will spend approximately 1 hour on Keewaydin, also known as Key Island for beach and shelling time.

We encourage guests to take along a small cooler with drinks and snacks.

Afternoon Sightseeing and Sailing

The afternoon sightseeing and sailing tour is a great way to learn about the Naples area. The tour offers great scenery with opportunity to see dolphin and wildlife. Guests can also see multimillion dollar homes and yachts along the prestigious Gordon River area of Naples.

We encourage guests to bring along a small cooler with snacks and beverages.

This Sweet Liberty Catamaran tour leaves at 1:30 in the afternoon and is approximately 2 hours in duration.

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6 Seashell Hunting Tours That'll Take You To Some Of The Best Spots In Florida

There are so many ways to explore Florida’s gorgeous shorelines. From frolicking in the surf to lounging the sands, you’ll find creative beach excursions aplenty in The Sunshine State. One of the most time honored and traditional beach activities, however, has got to be hunting for shells. These Florida seashell hunting tours will take you to some of the best places in the state to add to your collection.

It’s easy to wade away the hours in the tides as you search for the perfect new shell to take home.

From shiny conchs to colorful scallops and even the odd starfish, you’ll find mermaid money aplenty on these Florida shores.

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Sometimes its hard to find the perfect spot to start your hunt, though, and these tours are just the remedy. They’ll cart you to some of the most bountiful places in Florida to hunt for shells, and your experience will be even richer for it.

Pure Florida Dolphin Watch Eco Tour

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Price: $69 

Address: 1200 5th Ave. South St 501, Naples, FL

Mollusks, sand dollars, starfish, and sea urchins — this tour takes you to some of the best shelling spots in Naples.

Dreamlander Dolphin and Shelling Tour

Address: 750 Palm Point Dr., Goodland, FL 

Explore the beauty of Marco Island’s flora and fauna and take home some natural treasures to remember your trip by.

Odyssey Dolphin Adventure Island Cruise

Price: $18.99

Address: 776 Dodecanese Blvd., Tarpon Springs, FL 

Take a leisurely cruise and spot wild dolphins on your way, then stop on the shores of Anclote Island to hunt for shells .

Sweet Liberty Beach Island Shelling Cruise

Price: $50 

Address: 880 12th Ave S., Naples, FL

Explore the bountiful shores of Keewaydin Island on this shelling cruise, and sail through the Gulf of Mexico for a beautiful day on the water .

Sensational Scalloping Collective

Price: $85 

Address: 10823 W Yulee Dr., Homosassa FL

This special Florida tour allows to dive and hunt for your very own scallops. You can do what you like what the shells and cook up dinner with your favorite recipe.

Caspersen Beach Shark Tooth Combing

Price: $28.95+

Address: 4100 Harbor Dr., Venice, FL

Caspersen Beach is an extra special Florida beach, because it’s here you’ll have some of the best chances to find shark teeth. The folks at Shark Frenzy have come up with a special “shark tooth sifter” to increase your chances at finding treasures, and they’re aiming to start guided tours in the future.

Happy shell hunting!

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Zelenskyy says bomb hit blood transfusion center, while shelling kills 3 overnight

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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends an event for marking Statehood Day in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, Friday, July 28, 2023. AP hide caption

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends an event for marking Statehood Day in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, Friday, July 28, 2023.

KYIV, Ukraine — Three people have died during a night of air strikes and intense shelling across Ukraine, officials said Sunday, while Moscow's second-largest airport briefly suspended flights following a foiled drone attack near the Russian capital.

Two people were killed and four more were injured following a Russian air strike in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, said the head of the local regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a guided bomb had hit a blood transfusion center in the area's Kupyan district late on August 5.

"This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression," Zelenskyy wrote on social media. "Defeating terrorists is a matter of honor for everyone who values life."

A woman in her eighties was also killed by Ukrainian shelling in Russian-held Donetsk, the city's Moscow-appointed mayor Alexei Kulemzin said Sunday. Moscow's Vnukovo airport located 15 kilometers (nine miles) southwest of the Russian capital briefly suspended flights Sunday morning after a drone was shot down in the airspace around the city.

Workers install the Ukrainian coat of arms on the shield in the hand of the country's tallest stature, the Motherland Monument, after the Soviet coat of arms was removed, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. Ukraine is accelerating efforts to erase the vestiges of centuries of Soviet and Russian influence from the public space. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption

Workers install the Ukrainian coat of arms on the shield in the hand of the country's tallest stature, the Motherland Monument, after the Soviet coat of arms was removed, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. Ukraine is accelerating efforts to erase the vestiges of centuries of Soviet and Russian influence from the public space.

The drone was destroyed by air defense systems in the Podolsk region of the Moscow suburbs, the Russian defense ministry said.

Authorities in Ukraine, which generally avoids commenting on attacks on Russian soil, didn't say whether it launched the raid.

Flights were last halted at the airport on July 30, when two drones crashed into the Moscow City business district after being jammed by Russian air defenses.

The attack was one of four strikes on the Russian capital in the space of a month, spotlighting Moscow's vulnerability as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its second year.

The attempted drone strike followed a night of heavy clashes across Ukraine. The Ukrainian air force reported Sunday that Russian forces had launched 70 attack drones and air and sea missiles overnight.

The bombardment reportedly included cruise missiles launched from aircraft over the Caspian Sea and Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs.

Serhiy Tyurin, deputy head of Ukraine's Khmelnytsky region military administration, said Sunday that Russian missiles had damaged several buildings in the area, injuring one and sparking a fire in a warehouse. IN Ukraine's eastern Kupyan region, a 55-year-old man was hospitalized after missiles struck local houses and farm buildings. The attack also ignited a forest fire, officials said on social media.

In the Russian-held city of Donetsk, Ukrainian shelling also set alight the main building of the M. Tugan-Baranovsky University of Economics and Trade, said the Moscow-installed head of the illegally annexed Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin.

Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said that the blaze caused the building's roof to collapse, but that there were no casualties.

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Russia-Ukraine war: two killed in shelling of Russian village; drones targeting Moscow and Sevastopol shot down – as it happened

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Suspilne offers this morning round-up of latest news about the war:

At night, the Russian army released ten “Shahed” drones over Ukraine. The air force reported air defence managed to destroy seven. Air defence was active in Kyiv region at night. There were no hits, no casualties. Air defence forces also worked in the Khmelnytskyi region. The Russian army shelled the village of Kindrashivka in the Kharkiv region – two people were injured. Kupiansk was also hit by a guided aerial bomb, and the city council building was damaged. At night, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant lost power from the main external power transmission line. Energoatom reported it was switched to the only available backup line.

Poland is planning to move up to 10,000 additional troops to the border with Belarus to support the Border Guard, the defence minister, Mariusz Błaszczak, said on Thursday.

“About 10,000 soldiers will be on the border, of which 4,000 will directly support the Border Guard and 6,000 will be in the reserve,” Reuters reports the minister said in an interview for public radio.

“We move the army closer to the border with Belarus to scare away the aggressor so that it does not dare to attack us,” Błaszczak said.

The deputy interior minister, Maciej Wąsik, had said on Wednesday that Poland would send 2,000 additional troops to its frontier with Belarus.

Suspilne, Ukraine's state broadcaster, reports that 28 explosions in the Sumy region were recorded overnight due to Russian shelling, but that no casualties have been reported.

This is Martin Belam taking over the live blog in London. You can contact me at [email protected] .

Russian government stepping up efforts to stop VPN use, says UK Ministry of Defence

The UK Ministry of Defence has posted its daily intelligence briefing, saying that Russian authorities have stepped up efforts to block citizens’ access to virtual private networks (VPNs), which allow people to bypass restrictions on the internet.

“Reports suggest many of the most popular VPNs have become unusable in some regions of Russia,” the MoD tweeted.

“VPNs are hugely popular in Russia, despite being illegal since 2017. They allow users to access objective international news sources, including about the war in Ukraine .”

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 10 August 2023. Find out more about Defence Intelligence's use of language: https://t.co/lNs9SRnaOE 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/fEx1vfY2FC — Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) August 10, 2023

The update notes that in addition to restricting access, Russia has mounted a scare campaign about the dangers of VPNs.

“As well as increased technical disruption, the Russian state has also launched a public information campaign, attempting to scare citizens into avoiding VPNs by claiming they put their personal data at risk,” the MoD said.

By turning food into a weapon Russia has resorted to one of the oldest forms of warfare. Ancient armies burned the granaries of their foes to starve them into submission.

In this case, Ukraine’s economy has been further damaged and Russian exports have fetched higher prices. But the threat of starvation is thousands of miles away in the very poorest countries, that could be pushed further towards famine by higher prices and fewer humanitarian deliveries.

Ukraine provided half the wheat the World Food Programme (WFP) bought on global markets, which it shipped to people most in need in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It was good quality, cheap and quick to ship from Odesa through the Bosphorus into the Mediterranean, then through the Suez Canal to Yemen and the Horn of Africa. The WFP now has to buy grain at a higher price and transport it from ports much further away:

After failing to conquer Ukraine by conventional means, Russia tried an energy war, trying to hobble the power grid and freeze the nation into submission . Now it has launched a food war.

The mining of the Kakhovka dam in June threatens to turn southern Ukrainian farmland into a dustbowl. Since Moscow pulled out of an UN-brokered deal to allow Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea last month, it has announced a naval blockade of the country’s ports, and directly targeted food (destroying 220,000 tonnes of cereals awaiting export in silos) on the sea coast but also inland with attacks over the past two weeks on the Danube ports of Reni and Izmail.

The global cereal price index rose 10% in late July after Russia torpedoed the Black Sea grain initiative (BSGI), blocking a route that carried 32m tonnes over a year, more than half Ukraine’s total grain exports.

Some traders believe prices will have risen 20% by the end of the summer. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has appealed to Vladimir Putin to reconsider, but few involved in the grain business are optimistic that the deal can be revived:

More now on the drone strikes in Russia .

Until a series of attacks in recent months, Moscow had not been targeted during the conflict in Ukraine , which began more than a year ago, AFP reports.

The Russia-annexed Crimean peninsula, however, has been disrupted by several strikes throughout the hostilities, and has seen more frequent attacks in recent weeks.

Russia said Saturday it had downed a drone over the ocean near Sevastopol, the base of its Black Sea fleet.

In July, Ukrainian drone strikes on Crimea blew up an ammunition depot and damaged the bridge across the Kerch Strait linking the peninsula to Russia’s mainland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned last month that “war” was coming to Russia, with the country’s “symbolic centres and military bases” becoming targets.

Russian drones destroy oil depot in Ukraine, say authorities

Meanwhile Russian drones destroyed a fuel depot in Ukraine’s western Rivne region on Thursday, governor Vitaly Koval wrote on the Telegram messaging app. There were no casualties from the attack, he said, standing in front of the burning site in a video.

Russia says downed 11 Ukrainian drones near Crimea, plus 2 headed to Moscow

Russia’s defence ministry said early on Thursday it had downed 11 Ukrainian drones near Crimea overnight, as well as two drones flying toward the capital Moscow, AFP reports.

“Two UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) flying in the direction of the city of Moscow were destroyed,” the ministry said in a statement on Telegram.

It said two Ukrainian drones were shot down near the city of Sevastopol on the Crimean coast, and “another 9 were suppressed by means of electronic warfare and crashed in the Black Sea”.

The ministry said there were no reports of damage or casualties in any of the affected areas.

The strikes come a day after Russia said two Ukrainian combat drones headed for Moscow were shot down, and constitute at least the fourth attack near the capital within a week.

Opening summary

Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine with me, Helen Sullivan.

Russian air defences shot down two drones targeting Moscow in the early hours of Thursday morning, the city’s mayor has said.

In the latest attack on the Russian capital, a drone was shot down in the Kaluga region south-west of Moscow and a second was shot down on Moscow’s central ring road, Sergei Sobyanin posted on Telegram.

Meanwhile, Russian forces also downed 11 drones near Sevastopol, the city in Crimea which serves as Russia’s Black Sea navy base, the RIA news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying.

Russia usually blames such attacks on Ukraine, which usually refrains from commenting. However, drone strikes targeting Moscow and Russian occupied Crimea have recently increased in frequency and last month Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that “the war is returning to the territory of Russia ”.

In other developments:

An explosion on the grounds of a factory north of Moscow that previously made optical equipment for the Russian military killed one person, wounded 60 others and left at least eight people unaccounted for, officials said . No official explanation was given for the explosion in the city of Sergiev Posad, which produced a tall plume of black smoke and added to jitters over recent night-time drone attacks on Moscow.

Ukrainian forces have made an attempt to cross the Dnipro river dividing liberated and occupied Kherson potentially breaching what has for months served as the frontline in the south of Ukraine. Russian military bloggers reported that up to seven boats, each carrying around six to seven people, landed near the settlement of Kozachi Laheri, east of Kherson city, and broke through Russian defensive lines.

Two people were killed and seven injured in an apparent missile attack by Russia on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia . Ukrainian officials said Russia targeted a residential area and a video posted by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy showed smoke billowing from burning and badly damaged buildings next to a church.

Thirty secondhand Leopard I battle tanks are to be refurbished by the arms manufacturer Rheinmetall at the orders of the German government and exported to Ukraine, a spokesperson for the company has confirmed. The tanks are part of a fleet of 49 vehicles that the Düsseldorf-based company bought from the Belgian private defence company OIP Land Systems.

Germany and Ukraine have also agreed on the supply of two additional Patriot air defence missile systems to Kyiv, Zelenskiy said in his latest evening address. “This will definitely bring us closer to creating a full-fledged air shield for Ukraine. This will help people, cities, villages,” Zelenskiy said.

German prosecutors meanwhile arrested an officer from the military procurement agency on suspicion of passing secret information to Russian intelligence , the federal prosecutor’s office said. Germany, one of the largest providers of military hardware to Ukraine, is a major target of Russian spying operations, which have grown in scale since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, authorities have warned.

The US and Canada imposed new sanctions on Belarus over its human rights abuses and support for the war in Ukraine. The new US measures include action against the state carrier Belavia and target a tobacco mogul close to president Alexander Lukashenko as well as 101 officials accused of subverting democracy.

Two Ukrainian combat drones headed for Moscow were shot down, Russian officials said on Wednesday, the latest attack targeting the capital. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram, “Two combat drones’ attempt to fly into the city was recorded. Both were shot down by air defence”.

One person was killed by Ukrainian shelling in the border village of Gorkovsky, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region on Ukraine’s northeastern border, said . Belgorod has suffered frequent artillery and drone attacks in the last few months, and in May saw an armed cross-border incursion by a raiding party purportedly consisting of Russian nationals.

Moscow accused Poland and Finland of threatening its security on Wednesday and vowed a response to multiplying “threats” on Russia’s western frontier from Nato members . “Threats to the military security of the Russian Federation have multiplied in the western and northwestern strategic directions,” defence minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting with military officials. Those risks “require a timely and adequate response,” he added.

Warsaw earlier announced it would send an additional 2,000 troops to its eastern border to join the 2,000 soldiers already stationed there, as it strengthens its border with Belarus after it became a new base for the Russian Wagner mercenary group . Last week Poland said Belarusian helicopters had violated its airspace and has warned of provocations from Belarus.

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