Driftwood Condo - Navarre Beach, FL

11/24/2023

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 🐚 🍁

09/06/2023

😯 We had no idea! 🐚

Have you ever found the perfect shell when walking on the beach? And then you realize it has a hole, so you put it back and start searching again. These holes indicate that the organism that once called that shell home, was a victim of a hungry moon snail.

The shark eye (Neverita duplicata) is a type of moon snail, and a predatory gastropod that lives in the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. It can be found on sandy shores just below the low tide line.

Moon snails use a radula to drill into shells. A radula is a chitinous structure, like a tongue, containing small teeth used for drilling or scraping. Drilling rate is about 0.5mm per day and the process of eating the prey can take up to a day! Moon snails favor soft or thin shelled bivalves but will attack almost any other shelled mollusk they encounter in the sand — including other moon snails!

🐚 Pictured are several shells with small round holes in them. The shark eye shell (moon snail) is the large spiral shell in the center.

NPS Photo/Laughlin

06/26/2023

Navarre Beach Safety Unveils New Public Safety Dashboard, in collaboration with SafeBeachDay.com and Watchtower Digital Command Center, for Real-Time Beach Condition and Safety Information

Navarre Beach Safety has launched Public Beach Safety Dashboard, in collaboration with SafeBeachDay.com and Watchtower Digital Command Center. SafeBeachDay.com is a first-of-its-kind digital public safety tool that provides Navarre Beach residents and visitors with up-to-the-minute details on aquatic risk, wave height, water temperature, stingray activity, and more. The free website allows beachgoers to take advantage of a variety of safety tools to supplement their beach visit.

“In Navarre Beach, beaches are one of our greatest and most utilized public resources,” said Austin Turnbull, Beach Safety Division Chief, Navarre Beach Fire Rescue. “We’re proud to help provide this safety tool to our community. We believe that by investing in a beach safety communication tool like SafeBeachDay, we’ll keep our residents and visitors coming back for years to come.”

These digital beach safety dashboards help to collect and broadcast various types of safety data: Water safety conditions, including reported rip current locations, and wave height.
- Emergency weather alerts from the National Weather Service.
- Tower locations, and directions.
- Frequently asked questions about beach amenities, activities, prohibitions, hazards, and local events. (These are still being updated**)
- Location and frequency of stingray, jellyfish, and other marine-life activity.

For more information, and to see the dashboards in action, please visit:
https://safebeachday.com/navarre-beach/

You will start seeing these QR codes at beach safety locations, hotels, rental properties, business, and local restaurants in the near future.

We will continue to do our daily Facebook updates at 10am, but this will give our community real time information as we develop this program. If successful, in the future we can include text message updates that can be sent directly to your phone.

05/26/2023

Yesterday at Navarre Towers ✨

Who is ready for summertime?! 🏖️

05/23/2023

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05/05/2023

We still have some dates available for your summer vacation! ☀️ 🌊 🐚

Make memories to last a lifetime at Driftwood Condo - Navarre Beach, FL.

Your reservation includes two beach chairs and an umbrella when you stay March - October. 🏖️

Click the link below to book your vacation, today! 👇🏼

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03/21/2023

Are you ready? ✈️ 💙

Book your stay and see the Blue Angels.

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09/17/2022

🗣NEW TO THE MENU: 🥁 Jerk Spiced Seared Grouper 😋 It’s everything your taste buds need.

07/09/2022

05/20/2022

Please fill in any holes you dig on the beach.
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Turtle-y terrific! Biologists identified the first sea turtle nest of the 2022 season at Gulf Islands National Seashore!

The nest was identified on May 17 in the Santa Rosa Island Area. Sea turtle season is May through October.

Holes on the beach pose a risk to both nesting and hatchling sea turtles. One of the ways visitors can help improve the quality of life for sea turtles is by filling in holes on the beach and taking home all the items you brought with you.

Nighttime beach activities by humans have the ability to stop female turtles from wanting to come onshore and nest entirely. In addition to potentially getting trapped in holes left by humans, turtles can also get caught in leftover beach equipment.

Park staff and volunteers monitor park beaches daily for nesting activity throughout the season.

For more information about sea turtles at GUIS visit www.nps.gov/guis/learn/nature/seaturtle-species.htm.

NPS/Manis Image of a sea turtle nest in Gulf Islands National Seashore.

04/20/2022

This is great news! 🎉

FINALLY! The ribbon cutting for the Navarre Park Phase I improvements will take place Saturday, April 30. During the event, District 4 Commissioner Dave Piech will announce some exciting news for future phases plus unveil a special tribute piece.

Santa Rosa County on Wednesday announced the reopening of Navarre Park, following the completion of Phase I improvements. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 30.

Santa Rosa County began redeveloping the existing Navarre Park in October 2020 to create a top-notch recreational experience for all ages and abilities.

“We have all been anxiously awaiting the opening of Navarre Park and I’m sure that the new park will be a great attraction for residents as well as visitors for many years to come,” said Commissioner Dave Piech, District 4. "The enhancements that were made are part of multiple phases of improvements slated for Navarre Park."

The county thanked The Starfish Project NWFL for raising funds for adaptive equipment so children of all abilities can play together.

Enhancements to the park include an interactive splash pad, ADA accessible restroom facilities, all-inclusive playgrounds for two age groups, expanded parking, an expanded boardwalk with seating and picnic tables, landscaping and stormwater improvements.

Funding for the park improvements was made possible by a combination of local option sales tax funds, District 4 recreation funds, tourist development tax fund and general funds.

03/28/2022

Things will look different on your next trip to the Driftwood Condo! 🎨

Repairs from Hurricane Sally are being finished up and the building is getting a facelift. ☀️

03/13/2022

🎵 ☀️ 🌊 🎸

12/29/2021

both in their own element ☀️ 🌊 🏝

04/26/2021

Happy Monday! 🌅

04/06/2021

03/16/2021

The Driftwood Condo is open for booking.
Come enjoy Navarre Beach!☀️🐚🌊

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03/16/2021

03/11/2021

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“Crown of Stars”
Would you like a little crescent moon with your Milky Way? I sure do! This is what I saw 4:30 Tuesday morning. It was a beautiful clear night and the moon was a 16% Waning Gibbous, so it wasn’t so bright that it obscured the MW. I love how the moon is almost centered underneath the stars of the MW making them look like a crown of stars. 💫

02/28/2021