Wifey and I became big fans of the area about this time last year, upon spending a couple of days on the beachfront at Destin.
Destin’s nice, but it gets really crowded this time of year. It can take an hour to drive one mile on the main strip. The beaches in Navarre are just as nice, and you don’t have to fight the crowds (except today, which is Billy Bowlegs...a giant beach party that stretches from Destin to Pensacola). Most of the die-hard Billy Bowleggers are out on Crab Island today (which isn’t really an island, it’s really shallow water just north of the Destin bridge where several thousand boats anchor together. Then everybody gets drunk and girls tops (and some bottoms) start coming off. I’m not big into that kind of debauchery, so I stay home with the kids and wife :).