January 10th - Pensacola Beach to Jacksonville

We started off the day driving out of Pensacola Beach on Beach Boulevard right along the gulf coast.  We drove through the Gulf Islands National Sea Shore in the fog (beautiful!) on to to Navarre Beach, a tiny, tiny community built literally on the sand.  No grass anywhere. We think the highest point in Navarre Beach is 12" above sea level.

We then drove on towards Destin (much bigger city than we thought it was) and Ft Walton on Highway 98.  We turned off on highway 30A to get back to the gulf and drove through a beautiful set of small, well to do gulf side communities, Watercolor, Seaside and Rosemary Beach.

Seaside has a great community center with about 8 to 10 food "trucks" housed in old Airstream trailers.  A great place for lunch and just a block of so from the beach.  From what we could see Seaside looked like a great little beach community.

We then drove through Panama City Beach and Panama City (to be avoided next time if possible) and on toward Apalachicola, Apalachicola Bay and St. George Island.

The causeway/bride to St. George Island.

"Downtown" St. George Island.

Sunset from St. George Island. 

We then headed back to the mainland and on to Tallahassee for dinner at what was rated on Trip Advisor.com as the third best place to eat in Tallahassee, a greasy spoon hamburger place called Monk's.  It didn't disappoint!  

The cooks at Monk's.







We then drove on to Jacksonville and collapsed at our home away from home, the Holiday Inn Express for the night.