Welcome to your island paradise on the crystal blue Emerald Coast!
There is nothing like a few days at the beach to put life back into perspective.
When I first set eyes on the Gulf of Mexico, I gasped! I had never seen anything so beautiful.
The sand is sugary white and powder-soft. It is no ordinary sand. It's amazing color comes from tiny Apalachian quartz that have filtered down from the mountains through the Apalachicola River. Each grain is ground to an almost perfect oval. That's makes the sand 'squeak' when you walk on it.
The sun provides an astonishing average of 343 sunny days a year.
The beaches of Okaloosa Island were voted number one in a reader poll by USA Today. In the survey, USA Today asked readers to vote on the top 10 beaches in the country.
Readers voted , that without a doubt, the 24 miles of silky white sands that accompany the island beaches are the most intoxicating and irresistable beaches in the entire country!