The Navarre Beach Leaseholders and Residents Association’s monthly meeting ended with a field trip to the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center. Director Cathy Holmes led the group through the center.
Each year hundreds of people make their winter home in Florida and are, therefore, dubbed “Snowbirds.” They come in the winter months for many reasons, maybe to escape the cold and snow back home for warmer temperatures, to visit Florida when the beaches aren’t crowded with tourists or to spend some time gazing out over the water as the sun sets on Navarre Beach. Whatever the reason, Navarre welcomes these snowbirds to their temporary home-away-from-home.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers grilled Okaloosa County officials on Monday about how their tourism director managed to spend more than $1.4 million in tax and BP oil spill grant money on a home, yacht and other luxury items.
The Navarre Krewe of Jesters put on a parade filled with revelers, floats, beads, moon pies and a king and queen. Overhead the sun was shining and the blue skies were free of any rain clouds that have sprinkled the last few parades.
Santa Rosa County Commissioners gave Michael Walther of Coastal Technology Corporation the authority to begin the permitting process for Navarre Beach renourishment during a Jan. 24 Board of County Commissioners’ meeting.
A dead loggerhead turtle discovered on Navarre Beach on Jan. 16 provided Cathy Holmes an opportunity to incorporate it into the future Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center.
Researchers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) documented fewer manatee deaths in 2012 than in the previous three years, as milder winter temperatures led to significantly less cold-related mortality. The FWC recorded 392 manatee carcasses in state waters last year, of which a quarter was determined to be from human-related causes.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Businesses and individuals who claim BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money have been paid more than $1 billion through the company’s class-action settlement with a team of private plaintiffs’ attorneys, court-supervised claims administrator Patrick Juneau said.
