Emerald Gulf History Tours

08/03/2025

What a cool idea!!

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08/22/2023

I have so many thoughts about this post and all of them funny!!😂😂

The real meaning of 'hangover.' The lowest form of accommodation in Victorian England was a place where you could, for the price of a penny, dangle on a rope overnight.

04/17/2023

It’s that time of year!!! 🏴‍☠️ 🦜 Find the treasure or just party like a pirate!!!

The hunt is on! Join the Captain Billy Bowlegs Pirate Treasure Hunt starting April 17th and search for coins until he lands and takes over Fort Walton Beach. Find the clues to locate the coins - which will enter you into a Grand Prize Drawing of a $1,000 prize package! Arrr, are you ready?

03/07/2023

Very cleaver!

Someone found this quahog clam on the Florida Gulf Coast and scientists dated it back to 1809, based on the number of layers on the shell. That’s the same year Abraham Lincoln was born, so they’ve nicknamed it Aber-clam Lincoln!

02/03/2023

Love the honey with history!!

Tupelo honey has been cultivated in the Apalachicola River basin for centuries but didn't get much recognition until Van Morrison created a hit record called Tupelo Honey in 1971. Tupelo honey got another public boost in 1997 when Peter Fonda won a Golden Globe for his role as a southern beekeeper harvesting tupelo honey in the film Ulee's Gold.

Did you know that Tupelo honey is the only honey that will not crystallize? And because of the specific ratio of different sugars, it’s the only honey diabetics can eat! Tupelo honey is one of the rarest honeys in the world!

(Thank You Nick Munn in Apalachicola, Florida!)

02/02/2023

Okaloosa birds getting ready to fly the coop!!

01/27/2023

What a great idea!!! I’m looking forward to spotting these birds all around Okaloosa County!!!

The Okaloosa Public Arts (OPA) has recently embarked on an exciting project to place 20 herons scattered throughout the county.  The project

01/16/2023

Real housewife Dorit had a swing and miss at this look in restaurant venture.

When in Capri: lunch under lemon trees! 🍋 🇮🇹

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11/27/2022

Just a thought…. Women have been running household since medieval days. Why were these women never called upon to run the prisons during the civil war? They had the know how and knowledge to figure out how to keep souls alive with little money!! How many lives might have been save had the Confederacy only relied on women?

10/31/2022

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“Dear King George,
The soldiers of the 60th Regiment of Foot have a bone to pick with you about living conditions at this moldy old Spanish fort…”

Happy Halloween from all of us here at the Castillo!
Image description: A skeleton wearing a British tricorn and redcoat uniform sits at a writing desk. A set of bunkbeds and a flight of stairs are visible behind him.

10/28/2022

Very interesting concept but in my experience visiting tourist don’t care about our history only our beaches and bars!!
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We say goodbye to the Best Western and 👋 to Beal House Destin-Fort Walton Beachfront