April 9, 2023 by SoWal Staff
Topsail Hill Preserve State Park offers a wide variety of natural resources including 3.2 miles of secluded, white sand beaches with majestic dunes over 25 feet tall. Three rare coastal dune lakes provide excellent freshwater fishing. Although boats are not allowed, fishing from the shoreline yields bass, bream, panfish, and catfish.
See more details at http://SoWal.com/place/topsail-hill-preserve-state-park
Join fellow SoWal earth-lovers for an Earth Day Town Hall on Saturday April 22nd from 12 - 3PM in Padgett Park off JD Miller Road in Santa Rosa Beach.
Hear presentations, enjoy demos and displays from the Choctawhatchee Bay Estuary Coalition, and get tours of Walton County's only Community Garden with Satsuma planting by Trees on the Coast. The event is free to attend and family-friendly.
Red Tide can ruin a day at the beach in Walton County, Florida. Luckily, Red Tide is pretty rare in South Walton. The 30A beaches rarely get Red Tide, but when it come it is no fun. Sometimes it is very mild and people think it is an allergy attack. Sometimes it is severe and makes you feel like you have the flu.
Pretty much every year, usually in summer and fall, there are national media reports about Red Tide, and folks coming to SoWal get concerned even thought the reports are typically about South Florida in the Tampa Bay area.
The Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance does an impressive amount of work in our area and one of the largest parts of the mission is sampling and measuring water quality.
Check out the new comprehensive dashboard with data from more than 25,000 samples >
The Monarch Art Trail (MAT) is an outdoor sculpture project created by the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) with support from The St. Joe Community Foundation (StJCF). The art trail honors the magnificent Monarch Butterfly and it's amazing flight ability of up to 2,700 miles and its generational migratory pattern route through SoWal.
Even though Deer Lake State Park is in the heart of SoWal, right on Scenic 30A between Seagrove and WaterSound Beach, it often goes unnoticed by visitors. But in recent years, as parking and public beach access have become harder to find, our beloved Deer Lake State Park has started hitting the radar of beach lovers.
Walton County’s Dune Lakes are ecological treasures, and there are opportunities for you to help monitor and preserve the unique environmental systems of our lakes.
In addition to outstanding recreational activities, our coastal dune lakes store and filter water, and provide singular transitional habitats for a unique mix of plants and animals.
The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) announces the return of one of Walton County’s favorite fall events, the Flutterby Arts Festival, set for Sunday, November 13th in Watersound Town Center.
Mountainfilm on Tour returns to WaterColor Inn & Resort’s Marina Park Amphitheater Nov. 4-5, with films that reflect Mountainfilm’s themes of exploring cultures, preserving environments and promoting adventure, while using the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world.
[Updated with the results of the tournament below.]
The Annual Stinky's Beach To Bay Tournament begins September 24 and runs through October 23. You can register at Stinky's Bait Shack or online at stinkysbaitshack.com.
Follow Stinky's Bait Shack on Facebook to view leader board changes and tournament photos.
