Visitors need not pay for plastic children’s toys to build their sand castles on Navarre Beach. A new Borrow Bin was created at the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center June 14 to allow visitors to recycle, rather than buy, these toys.
Walking into the room you are greeted by the sound of thunder as a storm rages outside the windows. All around there are photos of the magnificent magician Harry Houdini, chains, locked boxes and strange objects. Dangling precariously above a water tank and locked in chains is the cunning escape artist himself, raised from the dead.
Only a small group is on hand for the first day of Kayaking 101, an introductory class to the popular recreational activity that is held on weekends throughout the summer at Naval Live Oaks.
Walk into a Navarre home these days and you are quite likely to be greeted by a smell you cannot quite place. A few more steps in and you might even see a slight mist spraying into a room that is responsible for that smell. That aroma comes from essential oils. Essential oils are on a whole other level than your average air freshener. Making your home smell nice is just one of the many added benefits of essential oils, which became a $6 billion industry in 2015.
Inside the high school gymnasium on a rainy Monday morning, 80 potential cadets in the Navarre Navy Junior ROTC program run through a series of exercises for nearly two hours.
Along Navarre Beach’s Gulf Boulevard there are a handful of places for tourist and locals to stop for a bite or to shop as they walk or bike along the sidewalks.
With shovels and sea oats in hand, dozens of children of all ages set to work June 7 restoring vegetation along the Navarre Beach sand dunes at the foot of the fishing pier as part of Planting for Protection.