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This is the current conditions weather report for Boca Grande. The report was made 37 minutes ago, at 04:53 UTC. The wind was blowing at a speed of 16 miles per hour / 25.9 kilometers per hour from the northeast (050°). The temperature was 73°F / 23°C, with a dew-point at 73°F / 23°C. The temperature felt like 77°F / 25°C. The atmospheric pressure was 30.33 inHg / 1028 hPa. The relative humidity was 41%. The skies were partly cloudy.
Boca Grande is a small residential community on Gasparilla Island, southwest Florida. It is a part of both Charlotte and Lee Counties, which is home to many seasonal and year-round residents.
Space is at a premium on Boca Grande, so many local residents use a golf cart as their main mode of transportation. On any given day in Boca Grande, you will see golf carts, as well as automobiles, making their way throughout downtown. A Lee County ordinance designates all but two streets as golf cart paths.
Boca Grande also provided the backdrop for Denzel Washington's movie, Out of Time, where the quiet village was re-named 'Banyan Key' in reference to the banyan trees that populate the island. Scenes for the 2006 film based on Carl Hiaasen's book Hoot were also filmed on the island.
Boca is very popular with affluent holiday makers, many of whom keep a second home on the island.
Tourism and fishing are the economic base on this tranquil seven mile long island that boasts no high rises and no traffic lights, a 104 year old lighthouse, and a street with 80 year old Banyan trees. Pristine white sand beaches stretch the entire Gulf side of the Island, while protected waterways weave in and around the natural mangrove shoreline along the bay side. Bordered by Charlotte Harbor and Gasparilla Sound on the east, boaters can explore 750,000 acres of estuary - where freshwater and saltwater blend to provide nurseries for the oceans fish species.