Gulf View is Green

The Gulf View continues to take sustainable steps towards the “green dream”. It’s been almost ten years since the installation of our three thousand gallon cistern, now accompanied by our state of the art irrigation system, plants, trees, and lawns get just the right amount of water. Two years ago we converted all high voltage exterior lighting to compact florescent a savings of about 3,850 watts/per hour, and in 2007 we started using compacts in the rooms. The recycling program has been extremely successful. All plastics, cardboard, metal, aluminum, newspaper, glass, electronics and office products are recycled weekly. We have a towel reuse program that we encourage our guests to participate in and just recently we’ve provided all of our guests with Thermo Tote bags for their shopping during their stay. In the future we have plans to make the transition to solar power. We are working to keep our environment clean for not only us, but our children and generations to come. Below is a partial list of over a hundred lush drought tolerant plants we have planted in the last thirteen years.


Fruit Trees

Banana

Key Lime

Guava

Star Fruit

Lechii

Fig

Mango

Papaya

Myers Lemon

Ruby Red Grapefruit

Valencia Orange

Tangerine

Avocado
Palms

Bismarck

Christmas

Bottle

Spindle

Coconut

European Fan

Pony Tail

Thatch

Traveler

Montgomery

Date

Pigmy Date
Shrubs & Foliage

Aloe

Variegated Ginger

Crotons (8 varieties)

Bougainvillea

Scavola

Starburst Bush

Sea Grape

Oleander

Hibiscus (10 varieties)

Bird of Paradise

Ixora

Plumbago

Oyster Plant

Red Sister Cordyline
Trees & Vines

Royal Poinciana

Schefflera

Rubber Tree

Gumbo Limbo

Bauer Vine

Wood Rose

Passion Flower

Passion Fruit

Star Jasmine

Morning Glory






Our birds, tortoises, iguanas represent the nature life of the Keys. You will find them friendly and adorable, we do! We grow our own garden to insure they have the freshest, greenest, healthiest vegetables available.


Come join us. We would love to share the Gulf View with you.



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