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30A Wine Festival
The 30A Wine Festival, underwritten by The Alys Foundation, returns to the beautiful community of Alys Beach for its 10th year: Wednesday, February 23 through Sunday, February 27, 2022.
The festival showcases renowned distillers, vintners, and culinary favorites over five days of celebration – a series of events and workshops where wine enthusiasts and bourbon lovers alike relish in the festivities within the captivating town of Alys Beach. All proceeds from the festival benefit the Children's Volunteer Health Network, a local charity which provides health services to uninsured or underinsured school children in Walton and Okaloosa Counties.
The festival kicks off on Wednesday evening at Caliza Pool and Restaurant with an intimate wine dinner featuring a four-course meal created by Alys Beach Executive Chef Kevin Cavanaugh...
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Where to Celebrate the New Year
As we head into the final days of 2021, make sure you know of the best spots to ring in the new year!
Friday, December 31 10:00am
Non-stop kid friendly fun for the whole family, there will be crafts, face painting, and more followed by kid safe "fireworks" and a beach ball drop!
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Holiday Happenings Along the Coast
It's the most wonderful time of the year, and we are celebrating all month long! Visit with Santa, shop at a local holiday market, or sit back and enjoy live Christmas music and entertainment all before before ending the year at one of the area's most fabulous New Year's Eve parties!
Merry Mainstreet
Every Friday and Saturday Prior to Christmas
Downtown DeFuniak Springs
Free to attend "Merry Main Street" boasts live music and theatrical performances, an outdoor market, food trucks, rides on the Choctaw Express Train, visits with Santa and Mrs. Claus, kids character appearances by The Character Clubhouse, and more family fun – all taking place along Baldwin Avenue in downtown DeFuniak Springs.
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Manatee Inland Migration to Start Soon as Water Temperatures Fall
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Manatees should soon be on the move as their annual fall migration inland to escape cooler winter conditions along the coast.
Their immune system can't deal with colder temperatures, and the sea cows can get cold stress illnesses once water temperatures dip below 68 degrees, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Coastal water temperatures are just a few degrees above that, according to the National Weather Service in Ruskin.
"It looks like it's around 71 or 72 degrees off Fort Myers Beach," said Nicole Carlisle, a meteorologist with NWS. "It starts with the first big cool down of the season; and as we keep getting additional fronts, that will allow the water temperatures to slowly fall. So you can expect th...
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Local Student Launches Beach Basket Program at Grayton Beach
The natural beauty of Grayton Beach is known to draw visitors from all over the word and generations of locals to stick their toes in the sugar-white sand and relax in nature.
South Walton High School student Hannah Smith wants to empower beachgoers to help keep the place they love to visit clean and beautiful with a new pilot beach basket program. Six baskets are currently stationed nearby the trash receptacles at the end of the Grayton Beach public beach access boardwalk. Beachgoers are encouraged to grab a basket and use it to pick up trash, dispose of it in the nearby bins and then r...