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10 long-form guides to Fort Walton Beach, each one signed and dated so you can see how current it is. They answer the questions that do not fit on a listings page: how the place is laid out, what you will actually be charged for, and which trade-offs are worth making.
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Two towns either side of one pass, sharing a beach, a bay and a sandbar. They are not interchangeable, and the right answer depends on things most comparisons never mention.
Two towns either side of one pass, sharing a beach, a bay and a sandbar. They are not interchangeable, and the right answer depends on things most comparisons never mention.
7 min readShelby Duval
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US 98 is the spine, the only spine, and it crosses water three times between Pensacola and Panama City. Understanding that one fact explains almost every delay you will have here.
7 min readTamika Rowe
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The air temperature tells you nothing useful here. What changes month to month is the water, the size of the crowd on the sandbar, and how much of the coast is open.
7 min readShelby Duval
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The town is on the mainland, the beach is on an island across the sound, and the expensive half of the coast is a separate city to the east. Sort that out and the week plans itself.
7 min readShelby Duval
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You are not buying a ticket to Crab Island. You are buying a boat, a seat on a boat, or a captain, and the three cost wildly different amounts and produce wildly different days.
8 min readGrant Ochoa
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One of the largest military installations on earth sits behind this town, and the reason the beach road was ever paved. Most of it is closed. The best parts are free.
7 min readShelby Duval
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This city has two shorelines with completely different temperaments (Gulf surf on the island, flat warm shallows on the sound), and knowing which one your group needs is most of the decision.
8 min readTamika Rowe
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A quarter-mile pier, a surf line, thirty miles of bay, a tidal pass and the largest charter fleet in Florida. They are five different sports and only one of them needs a big cheque.
8 min readGrant Ochoa
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The boat is the easy part. The parts that cost people money are the fuel policy, the licence nobody mentioned, and an ebb tide running out of East Pass against a south wind.
7 min readGrant Ochoa
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The useful question here is not what there is to do. It is which shoreline suits the age of your children, because this town has two and they are not interchangeable.
7 min readTamika Rowe
Photograph: Unsplash