In honor of President’ Day, Gulf Islands National Seashore will join national parks across the country by celebrating a fee-free weekend Saturday, Feb. 14, through Monday, Feb. 16. Visitors will be allowed to enter the Fort Pickens, Opal Beach and Perdido Key areas of the Seashore free of charge.
Judd Smith had the opportunity to play professional beach volleyball, and even though his playing days are behind him, he is still involved in the game.
Cape Canaveral, the community at the gateway to Port Canaveral — one of the world’s busiest cruise ports — wants to define and distinguish itself from other Florida beachside towns.
Images of oil-coated birds and testimony about “widespread sociocultural harm” opened the third phase of a trial to establish penalties BP must pay under the federal Clean Water Act for spilling millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Residential beach leaseholders are a bit unnerved as the clock ticks toward an extended March 31 deadline for lease fee payments. Whether or not they will have to pay them remains unresolved, but the matter is scheduled for discussion at an upcoming Santa Rosa County Commission workshop.
Navarre Beach Marine Science Station and Northwest Florida Marine Education and Discovery of Gulf Ecosystems, Inc. are teaming up with Audubon Society to encourage bird watching while enjoying the winter beach.
The Naval Live Oaks Visitor Center at Gulf Islands National Seashore (GUIS) headquarters in Gulf Breeze closed Jan. 10 for mold remediation in the aftermath the April 2014 declared flooding event.
