Pounded twice but Lee waterfront restaurant ‘ain’t giving up’

The  Mucky Duck, a well-known waterfront restaurant on Lee County’s Captiva Island, is primed to rebuild — even after the double whammy of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. 

Helene, says the restaurant in a Sept. 30 Facebook post, was actually worse for the establishment than Hurricane Ian in 2022. That post included the hashtag aintgivingup. 

"Hi everyone, we would like to thank you so very much for all of the heartfelt condolences and well wishes since Hurricane Helene came and gave us a pretty good smack in the face!,” reads the Sept. 30 post. “We did have a lot of sand pile up and a couple of broken windows (weather people said don’t bother boarding up) and of course there’s a lot of random damage and some still unknowns until we get the sand fully cleared, but…our faithful crew (is) hard at work busting butt so we can open up again as soon as possible and welcome you all bac