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Feb 16, 2022

Navarre Beach to host 36th Annual Mardi Gras Parade this Saturday

Celebrating 36 years of family-friendly fun, floats and beads, the Navarre Beach Mardi Gras Parade is set to roll rain or shine Saturday, Feb. 19 at 1 p.m. along Gulf Boulevard.

The parade starts at Indiana Street and Gulf Boulevard, and continues east on the boulevard, ending at the Navarre Beach Causeway. The event typically attracts tens of thousands of people – locals and tourists alike.

Feb 8, 2022

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Navarre Beach has ‘big parking problem’

Events sponsored by nonprofit groups on Navarre Beach, especially during the high season, came under fire at last week’s Tourist Development Council meeting. Specifically, concerns were expressed about these events taking up parking spaces, a particularly valuable commodity now that tourism has increased threefold in the last half-dozen years.

Feb 7, 2022

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Researcher: Local bottlenose dolphins have complex social patterns

For nearly three years, Christina Toms studied the behavior of bottlenose dolphins in local waters. She and other team members crossed back and forth across waterways including the Santa Rosa Sound, East Bay, Escambia Bay and Blackwater Bay.

Feb 2, 2022

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Science station students need funding for trip to help coral reefs

Each year, students from the Navarre Beach Marine Science Station take a working/educational field trip to Key Largo at the Coral Restoration Foundation (more info at https://www.coralrestoration.org/)!

Jan 14, 2022

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Beach bird? Not really

In his years of living on the 16th floor of Beach Colony Resort on Navarre Beach, Hardin McLean has seen a lot of seagulls, pelicans and ospreys.

Saturday, he saw something new.

Jan 11, 2022

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Tunes by the Dunes adds spring series, calls for bands

The Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce is now accepting applications from bands that are interested in performing in the 2022 Tunes by the Dunes Free Summer Concert Series on Thursdays (June 23-July 28, 2022).

Jan 5, 2022

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Senior surfers still catching waves

Tommy Greenwell can still remember the first time he paddled out into the waves near the Pensacola Pier. He was 10 years old and wanted to be like his older brother, an avid surfer.

That first day, he learned how to sit on the board.