I'm tempted to give Silver Key Beach a bad review, so people will stay away and I will have it almost to myself. Yes, this is a very uncrowded, very beautiful beach. Beaches don't get any better. The only difficulty is that you must walk for some distance to reach Silver Key Beach. No, it is not buggy if you stay out on the beach, near the water. No, there are usually no dead fish at all -- except when there is a red tide bloom, which, fortunately, does not happen all that often (except this past August-October). The shelling on Silver Key Beach is better than on the rest of Sanibel's beaches, mostly because it is remote and so there are fewer shell-seekers. To get to Silver Key Beach, walk for 30 minutes east from Blind Pass, or 30 minutes west from Bowman's Beach.