Beach Archive

Remember carefree days spent on the local beaches building sandcastles with paper cups and buckets?

You can still spend days on the beaches building sandcastles and turning them into amazing sandcastle sculptures.

Everyone is invited to the “Blessing of the Beach” on Thursday, May 20 at 6 pm on the beach, just east of the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier. The blessing is organized by the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.

The Tourist Development Council got good news about bed tax numbers for the sixth month in a row at the May 6 meeting.

For most of Navarre Beach’s visitors, the stretch of sandy island is a resort destination.

For Steve Bromley, it was a stop along his watery journey to somewhere and nowhere.

Sailors, mark Sept. 10-12 on your calendar for the 31st Annual Juana’s Good Time Regatta. The Board of County Commissioners approved the event application at its April 27 meeting, including giving permission to allow overnight camper parking in the boat trailer lot through the weekend. Organizers expect about 200 sailing participants per day. The event […]

Folks heading to the beach May 8 will be treated to the work of seven sand sculptors, who will be coming to “play in the sand.”

Sailors, mark Sept. 10-12 on your calendar for the 31st Annual Juana’s Good Time Regatta.

Starting May 1, beachgoers should be on the lookout and avoid areas that have been roped off for turtle nesting. Sea turtle nesting season begins May 1 and ends Oct. 31.

George Gray has been on the sea turtle nesting watch for 26 seasons.

The end of the first week of Waste Pro once-a-week trash collection in the south end of the county was complicated by a storm that pummeled the area Saturday.

With more visitors comes more maintenance problems, trash and unauthorized use of business dumpsters. This past month it has also brought more deliberate vandalism to a few structures managed by the Tourist Development Organization.