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i talked with my son about it the other night. he doesn't drink but he was bummed because he felt like he was going to have to sit in the condo the whole time since we talked about guilt by association. etc. and he KNOWS that there will be alcohol all around him down there. he has a spot on an...

oh lawd. :) i'm regretting this decision already. atlanta spring break is first week of april.

hi. well, my son is a high school senior, and i've made it this long without having to go to the beach for spring break, but....it's happening this year. his senior cross country buds and families will be down during atlanta's SB. we are staying in destin, at the inn at crystal beach. as a...

This makes me nostalgic. I remember our first few trips to 30a 10 + years ago and we were practically the only people on the beach. Boy times have changed. Still the most beautiful though!

Did a little research, not that anyone really cares :) lol, but no it is not an indicator of this bacteria in the water. I wish it were.

just curious because of all the news with the vibrio vulnificus... they don't test for this bacteria, but is testing for enterococci an indicator for vibrio possibly being at high levels as well?

heard on the news last night that there is now some flesh eating bacteria in the water these days. not specific to SoWal, but all the gulf coast. said people had died....geez...however, i also read it has always been there. not sure why they are warning about it now. just to freak me out i...

thanks everyone! i'm vying for 30a, but need a pet friendly(small yorkie)place for 24 people on the beach and am having a hard time finding it! we could even do 2 places side by side(one pet friendly, the other not necessary)...any help? looking for dates around christmas, and or new years....

hi we are thinking of christmas or new year's for a family vacation/holiday for a week. are places still open on 30a during winter? i know down at orange beach, alabama most things close up! thanks for any info you can provide :)

only a couple of weeks til we are at rosemary! ahhhhh saw there were a couple of advisories in april for water quality around grayton and holly st. i hope that if we need to stay out of the water(small kids), then someone will tell us. :)

so, we are coming down in may. will they post advisories at the beaches, along rosemary, if the water is above the level for their guidelines? will the lifeguards enforce it?

interesting article i read this article and immediately it made me wonder if something like this may have been going on in SoWal during last year's beach sampling. i still wonder if TPTB are even aware of the situation and if so, have they given any thought to fixing the problem...

just got curious about this because i know there was some flooding recently along 30A, so i wondered about the water quality and if it would be poor again, so that we could at least maybe determine that flooding is a possible reason for the high levels of fecal matter in the gulf. however, i...

unfortunately this has been going on since at least June http://esetappsdoh.doh.state.fl.us/irm00beachwater/reshistory.aspx?SPID=300 i really hope that the powers that be find the solution soon, so that the waters of 30a remain safe to swim in. do y'all this may be a problem that really needs...

saw a walton county sheriff fb post about water quality hi i saw where there were advisories posted again for some of the 30a beaches. i know how much all you locals care about the pristine areas down there so it must be hard for y'all. i thought it was a one time thing, but maybe it's...

yes, i agree that it's wider spread than just walton county. that's what i said before. it doesn't look like septic tanks would be the issue since it's in pensacola as well, so like another poster said, i bet it is the flooding. i'm sure it will clear up and be back to normal soon. (although i...

oh, i'm really sorry to hear about your family getting sick(especially while on vacation!). We have been coming to the area for 10 years and I never even gave a 2nd thought to the water quality while there(well, except when we came down right after the oil spill, which it was fine then too)...

water quality advisory hi i just saw on my FB page from the sheriff that the health dept issued an advisory for several beaches in so wal. does anyone have any info on this? does anyone even pay attention to this stuff? i'm betting 99% of the people on the beach don't even know about it and...

hi - i'm not in your class but i am from decatur, class of 1983. - i'm a crenshaw.

thanks to both of you. I already had the link for the rental place with those photos, but sometimes photos can be deceiving. i did google earth it as well. you make a good point, as i think it is "beachfront" not "gulffront". In all my years of renting beachhouses, I did not know there...

hi sowalers, i'm about to make my annual trek to sowal and have a question. are any of you familiar with seclusion dunes? there is a house "quantum leap" that we are considering. It looks like it's beachfront, but i wonder how easy the access actually is. also, is there anything about...

thanks for the info y'all. we leave in 2 days. can't wait. hope we don't see any gators! :)

hi thanks - i asked the owner. the address he gave is 8696 E. County Hwy 30-A Panama City Beach, FL 32401 The physical address of Dreams Come True is: 8696 E. County Hwy 30-A Panama City Beach, FL 32401 and he said: Don't let the Panama City Beach address fool you -- we are...

hi y'all wow, it's been like a year and a half since i posted on this board!! good to see all of y'all are still here ;) I'm renting in seagrove this year(probably). I'm considering a house called "Dreams Come True". I can't find the actual address and I wanted to google earth it before I...

we saw sharks a few times during our stay down in seagrove, near summer's edge during the second week of june. they were mostly near the first sandbar, but once we saw a small one just about 10 feet off the shore. fortunately, the water was crystal clear and everyone could see them, so we had...

is that a red flag on the beach cam today? are y'all having some weather? we're heading down tomorrow!! woohoo. how's the water? we are staying one street over from summer's edge.... jellies? june grass? flies? how's things that way???? doesn't matter, just curious. we're coming anyway...no...

i hope angelina's didn't have any damage from the fires around there recently. i have never had anything but pizza at angelina's and so i can't speak for the italian entrees but their pizza kicked ass! can't wait to go back...3 weeks and counting reece

hi all Is Angelina's still open? We went last year and I've been craving that pizza ever since! reece

you know, John R, oddly enough, i absolutely love beef carpaccio!! but i couldn't bring myself to eat a hamburger med rare. isn't that funny ? funny, weird, not funny haha. :D reece

sj - true - you are right. reporting is the proper way to provide that public service. jill - good point. i wouldn't blame the restaurant if i ordered a raw oyster or raw hamburger (eww). but i agree, if they are not practicing safe food handling within their establishment, i'd want to know...

BR, yes, i understand not wanting to publicly bash a restaurant, especially one that is popular and that you like(or liked until you got sick there :biggrin: it just doesn't seem nice, i know. and you have a good point, it can happen anywhere. but on the other hand, ick, if they have bad food...

hello wow-food poisoning is awful. glad you are feeling better. i'm curious, why won't you post the name of the restaurant? Seems like it would be a public service. reece

thanks tree frog. the house on brown won't work because they want to be on the beach, gulf front. beach baby of seagrove would have been perfect - it was in their price range but it's not available, of course. how about those 2 houses west of ramsgate?? :)

thanks tree frog - seems like i'm getting as much out of your walks as you are ;-) of course, beach baby at seagrove is not available :( there seem to be two houses called beach baby in the seagrove area. I'm a little confused. there is this one(which i think is the one you are refering...

ok, so my friend who i thought was going to rent sunkissed is undecided now. they really want a house gulf front. can you guys tell me the names of the houses on the front right there? thanks in advance to all you locals and homeowners!! i tried to do a print screen of my google map, but it...

hi Ti-da we rented Beachviews on Brown street. i'll be oogling your house as we walk past on the way to the sand :) we have stayed in grayton for the past 6 years, so this is a bit of a change for us. i hope that we enjoy it just as much as we have grayton. some friends of ours have heard...

hi i rented a house on brown st(beachviews), near the beautiful lemon drop :) in seagrove near summer's edge can y'all tell me exactly where the beach access is? would it be on chelsea loop? i'm looking at google earth and want to see where it is exactly. so, we stayed at absolutely grayton...

Hi i did alot of research recently(ask these folks on the board :) for a house with a private pool, close to beach and not too expensive this summer too. hard to find. :) are you referring to the preserves at grayton? i think those are mostly just community pool houses, if i remember...

found it! thanks! - cool house - really stands out down there doesn't it reece

i thought that was a photo(2-28)of the house next to the hilton house? i'd love to see a pic of the hilton house. reece

i'd love to see a pic of the hilton house.......Kurt? SJ? reece

thank you thank you thank you!!! tree frog and ti-da!! that is exactly what i needed. :clap_1: ti-da- your house is so fantastic! beautiful! thanks again y'all....today is decision making day, and i've even narrowed it down...i'm sure you are all glad to hear that :floor: reece

thank mermaid - yes, i've been buried in vrbo the past couple of weeks. :)

ok, so the area around summer's edge has me intrigued now. i would love to rent lemondrop :) but it's a little too big for us, so it's a little too much money. beachviews is a consideration. someone said that there are several houses on brown street with their own pools - does anyone know the...

well, i went to book the purple porpoise for our vacation and now it's not available any of the 3 weeks we want to go. i guess that's what i get for hemming and hawing too much :( sooo, now i have another question for the locals. i see some cute houses, namely pelican porch, in the village...

right, the little group of homes in seagrove

ok, i'm gonna stop bugging(pun intended) y'all soon, but now i came across a place called Seashore Village. Any info on that from the locals? sounds great. gulfside, walk to seaside? again, i google earthed it, but it may be too new. i see a spot of land between campbell road and old...

thanks jdarg! i look forward to hearing from you about your friend's stay. about the palmetto bugs - i know they are prevalent in the south, i'm a good southern gal, but we've stayed in grayton for 6 years and never had a problem until last year. i think those folks just needed a better pest...

I KNOW! the bugs that come out at night are the worst! shiver! LOL then they get into your shoes - ugh thank God for flip flops. i complained to Rivard when we checked out and the girl told me "all houses in Florida have roaches". :shock: i just said, well, i think they need pest control in...

hi y'all i'm looking at a newly renovated house in grayton for our beach trip now. it's right next door to where we stayed last year. we loved the house last year, but honestly, it had roaches. yeah yeah, i know, roaches are everywhere in florida( i used to live down there). we had pest...