Our
Blog
Waste Time Wisely
Sunken Treasure: Inside the Underwater Museum of Art
Fifty-eight feet down off Grayton Beach sits an eight-foot stainless pineapple, a skull with stingray eye sockets, and a genie lamp that exhales your bubbles. TIME called it one of the world greatest places.
Flora-Bama: The Magic Behind the World's Most Famous Beach Bar
Built in 1964 on the state line because one county was wet and the other was dry. Kenny Stabler and Jimmy Buffett told the country it...
Angels Among Us: The Blue Angels
Admiral Nimitz created them in 1946 for one reason: morale. Seventy-four years and 500 million spectators later, they were flying over hospitals so exhausted nurses could...
Saltwater Inheritance
Summer beach traditions rarely begin as traditions. Someone cooks breakfast in the sand, buys a tiny bungalow, starts a parade as a joke, teaches a child...
The Summer Table
A 25-pound cobia at a lighthouse, guava ribs in Vermont, and a grandmother's shrimp ceviche. Five chefs on the Fourth of July food they can't stop...
Blue Mind
Shoulders drop. Breath slows. Two Emerald Coast therapists on why time near water measurably calms the nervous system - and how to get some of that...
Long Exposure
He shot Weezer, Green Day and Nike, lost years to addiction, and came home to Fort Walton Beach. Sean Murphy on storytelling, second chances, and learning...
Salt Reset
After cancer surgery, a writer went to a temazcal in the Mexican jungle expecting a spa treatment and came out having decided against reconstruction. Plus eleven...
Coastal Classics: Six Rides Built to Last
Wrangler, 914 Targa, R107 SL, Bronco, Miata and an 80 Series Land Cruiser. Six vehicles that belong at the beach, from a writer who has owned...
Sounds of the Ocean
Joshua Sam Miller turns whale song and deep-sea recordings into an immersive experience that has moved audiences from Maui to the UN - and makes people care about protecting the ocean.
Beaches Abroad: Tofino, British Columbia
Cold-water surf, coastal rainforest and Pacific storm watching on the wild west coast of Vancouver Island - where to go, what to eat, where to stay...
Second Chances at Sea
Inside Gulfarium's C.A.R.E. Center in Fort Walton Beach, where rescued sea turtles recover, and return home to the Gulf.
Garden Spirits
From Maui to Bali, the world's best garden-to-bar programs are turning fresh-picked herbs and fruit into cocktails that taste like the place itself.
The Maui Cookie Lady
Mitzi Toro turns island ingredients into cookies worth crossing oceans for - a storybook shop in Makawao, 325 flavors, and a fan list that runs from...
Celebrating Light
A photo essay from 30A on winter sunsets, spring sunrises, and the light that stretches low and gold across the sand before it goes.
Soundtrack of 30A
How a winter festival built by volunteers on a nearly deserted stretch of beach became a nationally recognized musical phenomenon - and an $8 million engine...
The Implausible Creatures of 30A
What if the animals of 30A weren't just living around us, but with us - with jobs, routines and personalities? Artist Dane Howard built fifty of...
The Gulf Table
Along Scenic Highway 30A, the rhythm of the Gulf shapes everything - what's hauled in at dawn, what goes on the plate by evening. Eleven kitchens,...
