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Influencing Change: How MrBeast and Mark Rober Pulled 30 Million Pounds of Trash from the Sea
Two YouTubers and hundreds of creators set out to raise $30 million for #TeamSeas. Ten weeks later, they had cleared 30,249,948 pounds of trash.
World's Best Beach Bars: Nevermind, Cape St. Francis
At the foot of a 142-year-old South African lighthouse, a derelict keeper's cottage became one of the most picturesque places on earth for a sundowner.
Whispered Advice from "Dr. Quiet"
The most important doctor in your life prescribes only one thing: quiet time. Three tips for sleep, space, and energy in a post-pandemic world.
That Brit Who Lives on a Boat: Pete Boland and the Great Boating Boom
A Seaside executive, a 35-foot racing sailboat named London Calling, and a pandemic that emptied every boat dealer's inventory in Northwest Florida.
Girls Just Wanna Have Rum: Shannon Mustipher's Tiki with a Twist
The award-winning author of Tiki: Modern Tropical Cocktails on rum's global reach, Women Who Tiki, and the drink she'd order first.
Drinking in the Afternoon: A Global Tour of Hemingway-Inspired Bars
From 51 dry martinis at the Ritz to the birth of the Papa Doble at El Floridita, five bars that Hemingway drank in, inspired, or both.
10 Signs You've Found a Great Beach Bar
Sand tracked through the door, a boombox older than you are, and absolutely no Wi-Fi. From Bali to Mauritius, the ten marks of the real thing.
Love Story: A Waffle House
A 1984 wedding dance next to a jukebox, a song written on a napkin's worth of a story, and 1,200 Waffle House jukeboxes across the country.
Wine, Beer & Spirits Fests on the Gulf Coast
Five Gulf Coast festivals worth planning a weekend around, from a beachfront brewfest that doubles as an animal-shelter fundraiser to Tampa's biergarten on the water.
Gray Whale Gin: A Pacific Gray Whale Inspires a Small-Batch Brand
A whale sighting in Big Sur, a house sold to fund the first batch, and six botanicals foraged along a 12,000-mile migration route.
Meet the Experts on Florida's Best Beach Bars
Ryan and Sarah Conroy turned a spreadsheet and a weekend habit into 225 beach bars visited and ownership of FloridaBeachBar.com. Here are five to start with.
Hip-Deep in the Ocean: The Hip Abduction Is One of the World's Best Beach Bands
Lead singer David New on Florida beach bars, writing two albums in 2020, and why he refuses to fit into a genre.
The World's Best Beach Bars: A Global Sampler Platter
Five of the best in the world: Gitano in Tulum, Sa Trinxa on Ibiza, KU DE TA in Bali, Ocean Deck in Daytona, and Sydney's only...
Five Questions for Charles Joly, Bartending Champion
The Emmys' official mixologist on the daiquiri done right, the beaches he'd fly to tomorrow, and why he started bottling cocktails a decade before everyone else.
Boat Drinks: Gulf Coast Bars Best Reached by Water
Six Gulf Coast bars with a dock, a bushwacker, and no parking lot to fight over — plus one with a resident ghost fish named Jezebel.
Step Up to the Bar: Florida's Craft Beer and Spirits Revival
Tampa to Pensacola by the coast road: peppery rum, a Mermaid's Milk Stout, a blood-red hibiscus ale, and a $500 doubloon that buys you rum for...
30A From the Sky: Through Gray Malin's Lens
Shot from a doorless helicopter: the fine art photographer on why a beach seen from above becomes something else entirely.
Diving In: Five Questions with Marine Safari Guide Kayleigh Nicole Grant
The Kaimana Ocean Safari co-founder on tiger sharks, reef-safe sunscreen, and the one rule for meeting wildlife: observe, don't disturb.
