The 30A-List: Make Your Weekend Count!
Uncover the best happenings about town this weekend!
1. Wine Walkabout: Thursday, July 18th, 5 - 7 p.m.
Start the weekend right! For just $20, you...
A Day in the Life of a Lifeguard
This isn’t your typical lifeguard job at the community pool. The South Walton beach lifeguards are a group of highly trained, physically fit guards...
The Two Most Important Things to Know About Rip Currents
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. You’re in your favorite suit, the hot sun is beaming down and you feel the soft...
Flesh-Eating Bacteria: Does it Exist? Things You Need to Know
First things first: Is there such a thing as a flesh-eating bacteria?
This is a headline grabbing term but a misnomer. A more apt term would...
Hunter S. Thompson: From the Florida Panhandle to Infamy
Hunter S. Thompson was many things: author, journalist, drug addict, heavy smoker and even heavier drinker. Some people know his novels or his work...
Q&A: Learn What the Locals Love
Krystal Rose
Wife/Mom/Entrepreneur
1. What makes living at the beach so special?
Beach life is the best life! The people are so sweet and laid back. The...
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SCENIC HIGHWAY 30A
12 Killer Cocktails on 30-A
South Walton is well known for its beaches and coastal dune lakes; however, salt water isn’t the only liquid we’re good for. Scenic 30-A is also home to an extremely creative slough of mixologists....
Finding Truman
By Laura Braune Smyer
For fifteen years after its inception, 30A’s quaintly idyllic beach community of Seaside was a little-known secret gem of a vacation spot along Florida’s Emerald Coast. But in 1996, the master-planned New...
Beach Cocktail: The Sunny Bunch
Havana Beach Bar and Grill inside the Pearl Hotel offers many elevated cocktails in Rosemary Beach. The Sunny Bunch is no exception.
This delightful citrus drink is absolutely perfect for a lazy vacation day or...
OFFICIAL 30A® GEAR
BEACH FEATURES
Meet the Incredibly Odd Humphead Wrasse
All sea animals are unique in their own way, but once in a while, you stumble across a creature that is so strange it...
7 Must-Try Breakfast Spots on 30A
Get yourself fueled up for a fun day in the surf and sun! These eateries each deliver on taste and service, and you may...
The Blobfish: 5 Facts About the Ocean’s Ugliest Mug
In the aquatic world, there are a lot of stunning-looking creatures, like the mandarinfish, the rainbow parrot fish, and the clownfish. If those are...
Five Common Types of Jellyfish Found in the Gulf of Mexico
Locally, our beach flag system uses a purple flag to warn visitors of marine life in the water. This is usually to announce jellyfish....
