Gulf Islands National Seashore offers visitors opportunities to see wildlife and enjoy water activities such as swimming, snorkeling, kayaking and fishing.
They tread silently, one foot in front of the other. Only crickets and the occasional laughter of a child can be heard. The path winds left then right, then right and left in a seemingly endless circuit as the walkers give prayers and thanks.
Gulf Breeze High School student Blake Barclay is the first from Santa Rosa County to be selected as a senator for the national Boys Nation in Washington D.C. Two representatives from each state will be at the event.
When volunteers swarm Navarre Beach to collect garbage each month, cigarette butts often fill their collection buckets. Thousands of these burned, squished and tossed pieces of trash are left on the beach to eventually wash into the Gulf of Mexico.
When Zoey Hodges, 7, studied sea turtles in class this year at St Luke’s Episcopal School in Baton Rouge, it made a big impression on the second grader.
Tropical Sno, located on Navarre Beach, cleared the final hurdle to keeping their doors open June 22, but they are going to have to find space for some extra parking spaces.