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Gulf Breeze, Florida is a waterfront community of 6,189 that prides itself on its fine small town character, quality education, excellent local government and a multitudes of waterfront activities. The City of Gulf Breeze is located on the end of the Fairpoint peninsula in Santa Rosa County. Gulf Breeze is separated on the north by a three mile bridge across Pensacola Bay from the City of Pensacola and the south by the Bob Sikes Bridge over Santa Rosa Sound to Pensacola Beach. On the east, landward up the peninsula to the east is the 1,329 acre Naval Live Oaks portion of the Gulf Islands National Seashore. As a result, residents enjoy a quiet residential community just a few minutes from the Gulf of Mexico and the City of Pensacola. There are three Santa Rosa County schools side-by-side in the City of Gulf Breeze. Gulf Breeze Elementary School, Middle and High School regularly achieve academic excellence as indicated by high test scores and athletic excellence in sports. The City enjoys a stable local government recognized as a leader in financial programs, excellent parks and with the first fully accredited police department in the region.The City of Gulf Breeze was incorporated in 1961. Gulf Breeze has 18 miles of waterfront and three protected bayous where residents enjoy all sorts of waterfront activities. The City has one of the best boat ramps in the area in close proximity to the Pensacola pass. There are 105 acres of undeveloped park property along the water for a leisurely walk in the woods.

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Welcome to Florida's Emerald Coast, featuring the vacation destinations of Destin, Fort Walton Beach and Okaloosa Island home to some of the best beaches in the world. This website, provided by The Emerald Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc. is the official source for information about local attractions, restaurants, hotels, vacation rentals, events, activities, golf courses, fishing charters, weddings and meetings at the Emerald Coast. In addition, our Emerald Special vacation offers provide visitors with vacation deals and discounts. We look forward to helping you plan your ultimate beach vacation. Learn more about how we keep our beaches beautiful - click here to find out about our beach conservation efforts.

The City of Fort Walton Beach, home to approximately 22,000 people, was first created and chartered as a municipality in 1937. Though Fort Walton Beach is a relatively young city, its history actually goes back thousands of years. There is evidence from radioactive dating of artifacts back to 10,000 B.C., and archeological evidence of five distinct Indian periods between 600 - 1650 A.D. There were pirates, the most notorious being Billy Bowlegs between 1500 - 1800, and there was a Civil War encampment. In the early days Fort Walton was known both as Brooks Landing when John Thomas Brooks and his family settled here in 1868 and Camp Walton for the Civil War encampment by the Walton Guards. It was renamed Fort Walton when a Civil War cannon was discovered in 1932 and excavated from an Indian mound in the present downtown area on Santa Rosa Sound. Tourists, resort hotels, and the waterfront have been a part of Fort Walton Beach since its earliest days. Tourists came from the North, Midwest, and Southeast to spend months at a time at several of these full-service, American plan hotels on the shores of the Santa Rosa Sound. Dancing nightly in an over-the-water pavilion (where Fort Walton Landing is today), taking a water taxi from the hotel docks back and forth across the Sound to the beach, chartering fishing trips in the gulf and bay, receiving ice and mail by boat from Pensacola, and shopping in stores built over the water, visitors and locals alike enjoyed the relaxed lifestyle for which Fort Walton was famous.

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You are about to experience the natural beauty of Florida's Emerald Coast, where sand is like sugar and the Gulf waters are aquarium clear and emerald green. These unspoiled surroundings foster life-long memories of family vacations and unforgettable romantic getaways. Spectacular Location.... Natural beauty makes Destin tropical paradise. The location makes it a great vacation spot or a wonderful place to live. The Destin area offers an exciting variety of homes and neighborhoods. Please visit our Real Estate section to find your dream home!