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Everything we publish about Fort Walton Beach is searchable here: attractions, category guides, long-form guides and news. Tours are not — inventory changes hourly and belongs on the pages that explain it, not in a search index that could be stale by the time you read it.

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  • Attraction · Museum

    Air Force Armament Museum

    An SR-71, a B-52 and around thirty aircraft in a 17-acre air park, free to enter, and outside the gate so no base pass is needed.

  • Attraction · Water feature

    Choctawhatchee Bay

    Twenty-seven miles of near-tideless brackish water with one narrow way out to the Gulf, which is why everything on this coast floats on it.

  • Attraction · Water feature

    Crab Island

    A submerged sandbar north of the Destin bridge where the bay runs waist-deep and several hundred boats raft up. Reachable only by water.

  • Page · Crab Island

    Crab Island

    Crab Island is a submerged sandbar, not an island. How to reach it from Fort Walton Beach by pontoon, shuttle or charter, what it costs and how deep it is.

  • Page · Things to Do

    Things to Do in Fort Walton Beach

    Things to do in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, sorted by where you stand: downtown, Okaloosa Island, Crab Island and the bay, the Gulf, and Destin.

  • Page · Attractions

    Fort Walton Beach Attractions

    Every attraction in and around Fort Walton Beach: the temple mound, the Armament Museum, the Gulfarium, Crab Island, the beach parks and what is in Destin.

  • Guide · Guide

    Crab Island: How to Actually Get There, and What the Day Costs

    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.

  • Guide · Guide

    Destin or Fort Walton Beach? An Honest Comparison

    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.