The picture above was taken during a sunrise. You might notice a pink tint caused by the sun at daybreak.
The beach at the park is about 3/4 of a mile long. When we arrived, they were absolutely pristine. The water is beautiful and the waves are plentiful. Adjacent to the beach are huge protected sand dunes which must be 30 to 40 feet high.
As you can tell by looking at these pictures, this beach relatively private. I think the most people we ever saw on the beach was about two dozen who showed up to view a sunset. Usually there would be six to eight other people on the beach.
Immediately to the east of the park beach, are individually owned beach house valued at $3 to $5 million dollars. Some of those are rented out.
On the west end of the beach, we noticed some large condos are being built. The west end of the beach ends with a small inlet that leads to some private homes and has a sign warning to beware of the alligators. The large condos can be seen above my hat while the private residences are to the right of that. In Walton County, no building may be more than four stories tall. So, hopefully the giant high rise condos will never infect this pristine area.
Two years ago, the only way to get from the top of the dunes to the beach was a stairway. Construction is now complete on a wheelchair ramp. It is quite massive. This picure will give you an idea of how tall the sand dunes are and how huge the wheelchair ramp had to be. Note the 5'5" lady at the base of the steps.
A flock of Sea Gulls.
A baby bathing.
Caught a fish without using a rod or bait.
We want to catch fish too.
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