Beach Archive

Using his lucky vintage 45-year-old fishing rod, Navarre resident Jim Streacker reeled in a 45-inch, 40-plus pound red drum fish while surf fishing last week.

A select group of lifeguards from Navarre Beach competed in the USLA National Championship Aug. 4-7 on South Padre Island, Texas. The group represented the Emerald Coast and placed second overall in the competition.

Folks visit Navarre Beach for the crystalline blue waters, white sand and diverse marine life.

It’s a place to swim, fish and relax. But some people come to the beach on a mission – to find seashells and sand dollars, fragile treasures that rarely wash up on shore fully intact.

Navarre Beach Lifeguard Tessa Hendricks slices through the sun-kissed surf of the Gulf of Mexico driving a wave runner on a hot and humid summer morning. Her eyes lock in on the victim that is decked out in yellow and bobbing in the waves.

The Thomas family visited Navarre Beach from Missouri last week and spent six of their eight nights here educating people about turtle nesting.

Doug Browne wakes up in the wee hours of the morning every day and drives 7 miles from his Midway house to Navarre Beach. He gets out of his truck with two Walmart plastic grocery bags in hand and begins his 4-mile daily trek.

Here’s your answer: When you visit Navarre Beach, you’ll see signs warning you against walking on the dunes – the sandy hills formed by wind.

If you happened to be on Navarre Beach on July 16, you may have noticed a group of small, tan lifeguards pulling a CPR dummy out of the water.

The dummy’s name is Brady, after football star Tom Brady, and the small lifeguards are the Navarre Beach Junior lifeguards, doing their final test after an intense two-week program where they learned everything from CPR to surfing to oceanography.

This beautiful bloom that you may spot near the beach is a blanket flower, more formally known as the Gaillardia pulchella.

Butterflies and bees love them, and their root system is well-adapted to sandy soils.

The Gulfarium’s C.A.R.E. Center successfully released nine rehabilitated sea turtles Tuesday morning at Inlet Beach, Florida.