This northwestern Florida beach town was once a turpentine mecca, back when you needed the distilled sap to build ships. Today, it prides itself on its hiking and biking trails, as well as its Caribbean-style artists’ colony.
Stay: Architect David Rockwell designed the airy-looking WaterColor Inn & Resort, where you get free use of bicycles, fishing gear, and kayaks that you can paddle around its on-site dune lake.
Eat: Stop in for a cappuccino, ice cream, an “outrageous cinnamon roll,” or even just a beer at Miss Lucille’s Gossip Parlor. If you don’t have anything to
pass along to Miss Lucille herself, you can just watch the beachgoers stroll by, or check your e-mail on one of her co
There are still no impacts to our beaches and shores.
This is the weather summary from the deep water horizon update, as of 5/18/2010 –
Weather Summary:
According to the NOAA oil plume model, the oil spill is 85 miles southwest of Pensacola, 135 miles from Port St. Joe, 185 miles from St. Petersburg, and 20 miles from the Loop Current.
The oil spill is currently 85 miles from Florida and very near the loop current. Oil impact is not expected across the Florida coastline within the next 72 hours. A weak cold front will slowly approach the northern-central gulf today and produce light westerly winds and 1-2 foot seas, which will provide favorable conditions for deepwater operations despite the possibility of a few passing showers across the region today. As the cold front crosses the region on Wednesday and lifts north on Thursday, winds will shift to the southeast, and pick up to 5-10 knots which will persist through the weekend. Seas of 1-3 feet are expected through Thursday and will increase to 2-4 feet on Friday and Saturday.
Merry Christmas from Destin Florida! It’s so much fun living here and not freezing during this time of the year! I grew up in New York and I sure don’t miss the snow. It’s been a long time since the northeast has had a white Christmas. The kids must be having fun…
Frommer’s Travel has announced their top 10 destinations for 2010. The beaches in the Destin area are the ONLY pick inside the continental United States!
“Stunning beaches, nature trails … great restaurants, and a cozy, yet quirky, sense of community.” – Lesley Abravanel, author Frommer’s Florida
Where’s the top and where’s the bottom? Logic says you can’t predict either one.
Which type of buyer are you? Do you believe you can time the market, find the exact bottom or top? Or since you are always in the market you believe timing will find you? History supports the latter. If you are paying attention, you will buy right and do well over time.
Why is it when prices were going up so fast buyers were buying gulf front property like it would never be available ever again? Price didn’t matter. Value wasn’t even considered. No one seemed to think, I wonder if we are at the top..they just kept buying. Look what happened, the music stopped and too many people got “stuck” holding something they couldn’t keep.
Now, we are at a time where buyers can buy value. Prices in our area have declined since the top and substantially enough where the buyers who got priced out of the market can afford a condo at the beach. So here’s the moment of truth…you cannot predict the exact bottom of any market…real estate or the stock market. The smart ones play it safe and know this. The “safe zone” is where the smart people plan to buy and sell.
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