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Water Bound
A lifeguarding injury ended one career and a GoPro started another. John Starrett on springs, sea turtles, a rare rainbow snake, and why the best of Florida is under the surface.
Lulu Gribbin Stronger Than the Tide
For millions of people, the beach is a place to feel alive. It's estimated that more than 143 million people visited Florida's coast in 2024, seeking...
Eglin: The Giant Next Door
Aircraft overhead. Longleaf pines beyond the bay. A look at Eglin Air Force Base and the community woven into Northwest Florida’s coast.
Hooked for Life
From a first tug on the line at four years old to the world's most-watched fishing show, Josh Jorgensen built BlacktipH into an empire — then...
Where Legends Ride
Eighty surfers, one 300-yard stretch of reef, and a name that came off a construction sign. Inside Pipeline with a lifeguard, a legendary bodysurfer, and the...
Through the Lens of the Sea
A mining injury ended one career and started another. Ray Collins on shooting waves at their apex, why Hawaiian water behaves differently from Australian, and the...
Finding His Voice
American Idol passed. The Voice put him on Team John Legend. Then the pandemic sent Jared Herzog home to 30A — and a text from a...
A Conservationist's Eye
Marine photographer Ben Hicks on sea turtles, microplastics, and 25 years of telling the ocean's story with as little processing as possible.
Oceana's Crusade for Coastal and Oceanic Preservation
Balloon bans, offshore drilling, and 350 remaining right whales—inside the largest advocacy group devoted solely to the ocean.
Sunken Treasure: Wendy Mignot's Shipwreck Coin Jewels
A family that raised its kids at sea, a Spanish galleon lost in a 1641 hurricane, and the leather-and-pearl jewelry that ties them together.
Brian Bielmann: 43 Years, 200 Covers, and One Very Bad Wipeout
He bought the camera gear and left it in the bag for a year — he couldn't stay out of the water long enough to shoot....
Beach Cowboy: Brian Kelley's Sunshine State of Mind
The Florida half of Florida Georgia Line on writing his first solo album in lockdown, moving to 30A, and the only question he had to think...
From Bottle to Beach Tee: How Recycled Clothing Actually Gets Made
Americans throw away 35 billion plastic bottles a year. Here's the four-step path some of them take instead — from a recycling center in North Carolina...
Five Questions With Bethany Hamilton
The pro surfer on why no two waves are the same, why sleep is her top self-care tool, and what actually gets you unstuck.
Five Questions With Captain Liz Clark
She left California in 2006 on a 40-foot sailboat and has covered 20,000 nautical miles since. On the leak that took eighteen months to fix, and...
When Fish Become Art: Harley Van Hyning and the Gyotaku Revival
A 19th-century Japanese method of recording a catch, practiced on the docks of Destin Harbor in acrylics — a blue marlin's eye painted by hand before...
Rock Stars Fell on Alabama: The Story of Rock N Roll Sushi
A fired bartender, a cocktail waitress, and a mall with no food court. Black Friday shots for the Santa line kept the lights on. Forty locations...
World's Best Beach Bars: Soggy Dollar
No dock. No marina. If you want a drink on Jost Van Dyke, you swim for it, then hang your wet cash on the clothesline behind...
