LOTS OF ACTION ON BEACH AT DESTIN



Guy flying a big kite

It's dragging him across the sand.

Football game in progress

Taken from the boardwalk near the restaurant.

Note the small kite at the right.

Note the boat in the glare. 

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Wedding pictures being taken. 

Note the boat in the background.

2011 Fri. March 11

Relaxing morning, lunch here, then mid-afternoon we went to the Crab Trap for coffee and key lime pie. (No, not to Starbucks today.) The key lime pie here is very, very good, and we were not the only ones having just pie and a drink. Then we took a long walk on the beach. Lots of action now, with one guy right in front of the restaurant flying one of those big kites with a controller-bar to make it swoop and dive. The wind was only about 10 mph max, but when he let it get low and pull him, it would drag him through the sand. He would lean back, and his feet would make furrows in the sand. Then when it went straight up, it didn’t pull much at all. Fun to watch. Also, a small decorated gazebo was the setting for some wedding pictures. A little further down, a boy-girl football game was taking place. As I said, now lots of action on the beach. The wind is blowing parallel to the beach, so the wave action is small. Several boats went by, as well as some low-flying airplanes. Next we rode down to Majestic Sun resort right on Miromar beach. We plan on staying there next year, so we parked and walked around it a little. Much nicer setting than where we are now, with small fishing lakes and lots of walking paths. It’s part of a larger complex, Seascape, that includes an 18-hole golf course. Home for supper.


FL WEATHER: High 65, low 45. Cool but sunny, breeze 5-10 m.p.h.


FL NEWS: Spring breakers caught 'hunting' Fudpucker's gators
Two spring break students were arrested this week after they were caught trying to steal alligators from Fudpucker’s Restaurant according to their Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest reports. The men had dropped a rope baited with raw chicken into the gator pond. An employee of the restaurant at heard the two men “yelling outside the gator area” and looked out to see one of them pulling up a rope. The two 20-year-old university students were booked into the Okaloosa County Jail in the early morning hours of March 8. They were charged with burglary to an occupied structure and larceny, both of which are felonies. The men, who are both from Carrollton, Georgia, were here on spring break with a group of friends. One of them called the Northwest Florida Daily News, disappointed that the attempted gator thefts hadn’t made it in the paper. “They had no intention of stealing gators,” said the friend, who didn’t give his name. “They were trying to hunt gators – stupid stuff.” Their fellow spring breaker said that he and others learned a valuable lesson from their friends’ arrests. “I learned that gator-hunting is not taken too kindly around there,” he said.