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By Jim Ellis
Associated Press
Brama Island, Fla. | Little more than an hour's drive south of Orlando - and its amusement parks, direct flights and condos - exists one of the country's largest freshwater islands.
No one knows just how large because the island has never been surveyed, but owner Cary Lightsey estimates Brama Island to be anywhere from 2,400 to 2,800 acres.
Located a few hundred yards off the southern shore of Lake Kissimmee in Osceola County, the nature refuge, with its palmettos, sand dunes and grasslands, is often accessed by airboat.
Developers lick their lips at the high-rise potential. But profit isn't everything to the family whose primary source of income is cattle, which the Lightseys have raised in Florida for six generations - seven if you count Cary Lightsey's son.
"We've been offered...
Full story: http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/...0070228/NEWS/702280393/1050&template=currents
Associated Press
Brama Island, Fla. | Little more than an hour's drive south of Orlando - and its amusement parks, direct flights and condos - exists one of the country's largest freshwater islands.
No one knows just how large because the island has never been surveyed, but owner Cary Lightsey estimates Brama Island to be anywhere from 2,400 to 2,800 acres.
Located a few hundred yards off the southern shore of Lake Kissimmee in Osceola County, the nature refuge, with its palmettos, sand dunes and grasslands, is often accessed by airboat.
Developers lick their lips at the high-rise potential. But profit isn't everything to the family whose primary source of income is cattle, which the Lightseys have raised in Florida for six generations - seven if you count Cary Lightsey's son.
"We've been offered...
Full story: http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/...0070228/NEWS/702280393/1050&template=currents