Category Archives: Beach Conditions

All Clear in St. Andrew Bay 5/20/12

May 20

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Today I went snorkeling at St. Andrew State Park in Panama City. Not a hint of June Grass, a lovely beach day, decent visibility at about 30′, tons of fish including mullet, bucktooth parrotfish, cocoa damsels, bicolor damsels, sheepshead, small snappers and sea bass, senett, and a pufferfish!

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June Grass Report for 5/19/12

May 19

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No June Grass here!

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No Swimming at East Pass in Destin

May 17

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There are high levels of fecal bacteria in the water. You can read the news article here.

Please bookmark the Okaloosa County Health Department page for the most up to date beach water testing results.

To learn more about the Florida Healthy Beaches program click here.

I also find that the Florida Beaches app for Android (free on the Google Play store) stays on top of beach closures.

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Live from Dune Allen

May 15

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Previously I have gotten some negativity from a local on tripadvisor.com about the fact that The June Grass Report usually comes from Topsail Hill State Park. This happened to be the most convenient beach for me to access in the past, but now I have the ability to report on other beaches such as Dune Allen and Destin Pass.

As of about 7am there was zero june grass at Dune Allen, although there is still a fair bit of sargassum around and the south wind is miring the visibility.

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Stormy Seas

May 13

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Well as you can tell it didn’t turn out to be a great beach weekend after all. However, storms don’t diminish the beauty of the beach, although the sargassum will probably make the sea air less sweet later this week.

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June Grass Update 5/11/12

June grass update for Walton County May 11, AM:

0 on the June Grass Grossness Index. 

I went for a quick swim this morning. The water is a bit cool and there was a northeast wind so I didn’t stay in long but it was nice anyway. For you surf fishermen: there were some birds on a bait ball and a couple of dolphins just off-shore and yesterday I saw a few sand fleas and some crabs in the surf. There were a few baitfish around.

There is some sargassum on the beach from the storms earlier this week and some other algae and clumps of marine debris about, but nothing to make water sports unpleasant.

It looks like it’s going to be a great beach weekend!

 If there isn’t a current June Grass report up on this site I suggest checking the link to local beach cams on the left side of this page. They can often give you an idea of what the water is like.

PLEASE ENJOY THE BEACH RESPONSIBLY!

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Just a moment of your time please…

May 10

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Blogging the Beach

May 10

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Literally standing in the surf blogging!

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Great Beach Day

Apr 23

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Blogging straight from the beach!

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Sunday Surf

Mar 12

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Here’s a view of the Gulf yesterday morning walking west from the Stalworth Lake public beach access off South Bishop Drive in Santa Rosa Beach. There were a lot of surf fishers and later I heard pompano and sheepshead were being caught off the beach. The water is in the 60s so only little kids and spring breakers are crazy enough to get in. Speaking of spring break please be careful, especially in traffic.  Today westbound traffic was backed up from Henderson Beach State Park to the Silver Sands Outlets and there wasn’t even an accident that I could see.

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