Sand just doesn’t get much whiter than this, and that’s only the beginning of what’s so special about this well-loved band of Gulf of Mexico beachfront dubbed the Emerald Coast. The water is bright green, the dunes are lofty, the fish are plentiful, and the excitement doesn’t quit. For families, for lovers, for anyone, this is the superlative in Florida beach vacationing. Book a room in a beachfront bed and breakfast, a marina motel, a rental condo, or a name-brand hotel. Then grab your fishing pole.
Fort Walton Beach, an older beach community with lots of affordable resorts and family pastimes. To get between the two towns, you pass through one section of Gulf Islands National Seashore, a dramatic landscape of drifted blinding white sand that often puts northern visitors in mind of snow. On the Seashore’s bay side, a public access makes a popular recreational spot for boaters, water-skiiers, waverunners and parasailers. Beach shops, lively bars, go-kart tracks, batting cages, amusement parks, watersports concessions and beach accesses line the beach’s main drag on Fort Walton Beach’s Okaloosa Island. The Boardwalk is an energetic center of activity with restaurants, clubs, the town’s fishing pier, beach volleyball and the classic Florida’s Gulfarium, entertaining families with flipping dolphins and comical seals since 1955. The island road ends at the entrance to Eglin Air Force Base, inaccessible to civilians. On the mainland, separated from the island by the wide and beautiful Choctawhatchee Bay, Fort Walton Beach’s livelihood as a military town becomes more evident, especially at U.S. Air Force Armament – all about weapons and aerial fighting machines. Downtown comprises a few square blocks along the bayfront with perky little shops, a hometown park, a 17-foot-tall Indian mound and accompanying museum, and the Emerald Coast Science Center, a hands-on haven for kids.
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