May 15, 2008 Issue

• For its 30th Anniversary The Destin Seafood Festival will return to the Destin Harbor on Oct. 3-5. More than 25,000 locals and visitors will pack Harborwalk Village alongside Destin’s docks to enjoy fresh local seafood, live entertainment, arts and crafts, children’s activities and more.

• Beaches of South Walton is home to seventeen of the most unique and rare of nature’s wonders, coastal dune lakes. Separated from the Gulf by dunes, these lakes create a passageway through to the Gulf many times during the year. This allows fresh and saltwater to exchange and create a most distinct ecosystem in the world harboring many different Marine species.
  
• The unique sand of the beaches in the Destin area is among the whitest and homogenous of the world. Consisting of small quartz particles, this sand came from a process involving the Appalachian Mountains and the Apalachicola River, 20,000 years ago. It continues today moving large volumes of water carried by the Apalachicola River to the Gulf of Mexico. This water carries quartz particles from the rock that forms the Appalachian Mountains and deposits them in the Gulf, just 15 miles to the east of Destin and as far west as Pensacola Pass, their final destination.
  

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