Beach Archive

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.

The Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce’s Tunes By The Dunes kicks off its summer concert series June 3 with the Glenn Parker Band.

Guards returned to Navarre Beach March 13, just in time for possible spring break crowds and warmer weather.

The Navarre Beach Safety Division is in its third year. There are 30 lifeguards on staff that range in age from 16-61 and they are employed by the Navarre Beach Fire and Rescue.

All but one of the bands on last year’s concert series schedule have agreed to come back to this year’s Tunes By The Dunes Free Summer Concert Series.

National Park Service biologists discovered the first shorebird nests of the season March 3.