So much great advice, thank you all. If I don’t respond directly to each post, please still know I am reading and considering all.
Take a drive down the beach on google maps. I think they imaged the entire Florida coast by now. Don’t forget your paddle board and sunscreen. ; )
I’ll vouch for Ormond Beach as well. I live in gainesville, and like every one has been saying, inland is hot hot hot and more mosquitos. It is a nice still slightly underdeveloped beach community, close to Halifax medical center in Daytona (where they treat nascar drivers, and more importantly where my daughter was born), and sleepier than its cousin city to the south, Daytona Beach. Only and hour, hour and half from Disney via I4. Don’t base your decisions on hurricanes, my wife lived inland in Orlando, and her house was the crossing point for Charlie and two other hurricanes that year. They are gonna go where they go.