Beach Archive

The summer season is coming up quickly on Navarre Beach, locals and tourists alike will be flocking to the beach to enjoy the white sands and emerald green waters, but they won’t be the only ones.

Sea turtle nesting season will begin starting next month, May 1 to be exact, and will last until late October along Panhandle beaches.

The Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center held their annual SEAS the Day event on April 2. The event celebrated Children on the Spectrum, Month of the Military Child and Child Abuse Awareness.

On Mar. 16, Navarre Beach Fire Rescue honored three of their firefighters for their efforts in saving a man’s life.

Navarre Beach recently got a new beach manager, and his experience speaks for itself.

The Tunes by the Dunes concert series is back, and this time not only in Summer.

The Spring concert series will kick off Thurs., Mar. 10 with Rachel Clearman performing.

Sunshine and tens of thousands of people filled Gulf Boulevard on Navarre Beach island for the 36th annual Navarre Beach Mardi Gras Parade Feb 19. There were 60 parade entries this year, from krewes to businesses to community groups.

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.

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.

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.

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/)!