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Best beach in the SEC foot print. The Destin/Fort Walton/30A area is #1.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:35 am
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:35 am
The clarity of the water is Caribbean like with perfect sugar white sand. Best charter fishing fleet on the entire gulf coast, great restaurants, elite shopping, plenty to do, family friendly, and crab island.
Other places that are nice
1. Tampa area
2. Pensacola
3. Panama City
4. Key West
5. Fort Meyers area.
Overrated
1. Anything on the Atlantic side nasty water and brown sand.
2. Gulf Shores WATER IS DIRTY, outside of Doc's which is great average restaurants, no night life, just as high as Destin for lodging , police are out of control and are dicks, has a redneck cheap feel to it, very spread out example from orange beach to the Foley
water park can take an hour with traffic, tons of fat women on the beach compared to Destin, many homeless people running all over, many people you see come across as the first time they have been out of their backwoods home town in their life, and terrible fishing options example pier is shut down.
3. Mississippi and Louisiana beaches suck.
4. Texas beaches all smell like chemicals.
Other places that are nice
1. Tampa area
2. Pensacola
3. Panama City
4. Key West
5. Fort Meyers area.
Overrated
1. Anything on the Atlantic side nasty water and brown sand.
2. Gulf Shores WATER IS DIRTY, outside of Doc's which is great average restaurants, no night life, just as high as Destin for lodging , police are out of control and are dicks, has a redneck cheap feel to it, very spread out example from orange beach to the Foley
water park can take an hour with traffic, tons of fat women on the beach compared to Destin, many homeless people running all over, many people you see come across as the first time they have been out of their backwoods home town in their life, and terrible fishing options example pier is shut down.
3. Mississippi and Louisiana beaches suck.
4. Texas beaches all smell like chemicals.
This post was edited on 6/22/24 at 10:45 am
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Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:39 am to TheFourHorsemen
Add Sanibel Island and Cape San Blas to that list.
This post was edited on 6/22/24 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:44 am to GatorOnAnIsland
I agree the Fort Meyers area is very nice.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:45 am to TheFourHorsemen
The beaches west of Florida suck. Even Gulf Shores
I prefer Tampa/Clearwater to 30a
I prefer Tampa/Clearwater to 30a
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:45 am to TheFourHorsemen
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1. Anything on the Atlantic side nasty water and brown sand.
That’s a long coast to hate in its entirety…
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:46 am to TheFourHorsemen
Down votes are Gulf Shores people who have never been anywhere else and have no clue better places exist.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:48 am to TheFourHorsemen
Destin is tGOAT
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:48 am to TheFourHorsemen
quote:Closer to the AUC foot print (Asociación de Universidades Cubanas) than SEC foot print.
4. Key West
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:50 am to Dawgfanman
Myrtle Beach to Miami I have been up and down the Atlantic side just does not compared to the Destin area. I have ran into many first timers in Destin and have always gone to Myrtle Beach for vacation and said they would never go back to Myrtle Beach because it was a dump compared to Destin. Just shocked how much prettier the Destin beaches were.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:51 am to dallastiger55
100% agree
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:53 am to TheFourHorsemen
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Just shocked how much prettier the Destin beaches were.
Destin has some of the best sand in the world.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:03 am to TheFourHorsemen
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Myrtle Beach to Miami I have been up and down the Atlantic side just does not compared to the Destin area. I have ran into many first timers in Destin and have always gone to Myrtle Beach for vacation and said they would never go back to Myrtle Beach because it was a dump compared to Destin. Just shocked how much prettier the Destin beaches were.
They don't call it The Dirty Myrtle for no reason.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:04 am to TheFourHorsemen
Within the SEC footprint, my favorite beach was in Florida, specifically, Siesta Key.....quartz sand and the water is very clear. Beautiful place.
Here in California, my favorite is Laguna Beach....gorgeous coastline, flowers blooming year-round on the surrounding cliffs, palm trees, and coves all around. The water's perfect, too -- in the 70's, not bathtub hot like around FLA & the Gulf states.
SIESTA KEY, Florida
LAGUNA BEACH, California
Here in California, my favorite is Laguna Beach....gorgeous coastline, flowers blooming year-round on the surrounding cliffs, palm trees, and coves all around. The water's perfect, too -- in the 70's, not bathtub hot like around FLA & the Gulf states.
SIESTA KEY, Florida
LAGUNA BEACH, California
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:05 am to GatorOnAnIsland
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Add Sanabell Island and Cape San Blas to that list.
We usually go to 30A/Destin area every year, but my daughter wanted to try Cape San Blas this year. We didn't book it, but went back to our normal spot. Are the beaches and water comparable to 30A?
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:06 am to TheFourHorsemen
quote:None of this is true.
1. Anything on the Atlantic side nasty water and brown sand.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:07 am to dallastiger55
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The beaches west of Florida suck. Even Gulf Shores
I prefer Tampa/Clearwater to 30a
Look at your compass again
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:11 am to That LSU Guy
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None of this is true.
Yes it is.
The panhandle is undeniably better than 99% of the beaches in the USA if you don’t count Hawaii.
I don’t understand why people fight it.
Georgia beaches are awful. Miami beaches suck. Long Island/Jersey beaches? Forget it.
California beaches are incredibly nice but you really can’t get into the water. They have better hiking and cliffs but the sand sucks and water way rougher.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:13 am to TheFourHorsemen
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Anything on the Atlantic side nasty water and brown sand.
Not anything. Many nice spots on the Atlantic. But I do prefer the gulf side.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:14 am to r0cky1
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The panhandle is undeniably better than 99% of the beaches in the USA if you don’t count Hawaii.
Never found a beach up there that can compete with siesta key
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:17 am to jonnyanony
Water is clearer in destin and sand is whiter.
But siesta key is very nice.
But siesta key is very nice.
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