Posts belonging to Category Okaloosa Island
Posted by Zach on January 11, 2011
The Destin oil spill effects appear to have cleared up for the most part in Destin and Walton County. When visiting the beaches, you will likely not know the oil was here. After storms you might find small weathered tar balls if you look hard enough. Some oil is in the sand and although you [...]
Categories: Blue Mountain Beach updates, Destin Oil Spill Updates, Miramar Beach Updates, Okaloosa Island, Status of Beaches, Water and Air Quality
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Posted by Zach on July 30, 2010
The oil spill has caused us so much damage and the many different attempts or lack of attempts by the federal government have came up with little protection or solutions. It seems the wonder of nature has a answer to try and clean itself. In the form of Microbes, oil eating microbes. Along with evaporation [...]
Categories: Blue Mountain Beach updates, Crystal Beach updates, Destin Beach Updates, Destin Oil Spill Updates, Grayton Beach updates, Horizon Oil Spill Progress, Miramar Beach Updates, Okaloosa Island, Rosemary Beach Updates, Sandestin, Santa Rosa Beach Updates, Seagrove Beach, Seaside Beach updates, Status of Beaches, Top Sail, Water and Air Quality, WaterColor Beach Updates
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Posted by Zach on July 26, 2010
Today was one of the most amazing days at the harbor and on east pass that i have seen in a few years the water was amazing. The beaches are open and will be, the predictions are for the oil to stay in the area of LA for now. You will still see pockets of [...]
Categories: Destin Beach Updates, Destin Oil Spill Updates, Horizon Oil Spill Progress, Miramar Beach Updates, Okaloosa Island
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Posted by Zach on July 20, 2010
Okaloosa Island on 7-20. The oil spill effects are hard to see today as alot of people were out on the beach playing in the water and playing volleyball in the sand. The water was thick on june-grass today but it changes alot from day to day and shouldn’t stay too thick for long. Incoming [...]
Categories: Destin Oil Spill Updates, Okaloosa Island, Status of Beaches, Videos of Beach
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Posted by Zach on July 15, 2010
We know quarterly earnings are due out soon and reporting the oil capping a sucess will help BP says oil has stopped leaking into the Gulf for the first time since April. BP has been slowly dialing down the flow as part of a test on a new cap. Engineers are now monitoring the pressure [...]
Categories: Blue Mountain Beach updates, Crystal Beach updates, Destin Oil Spill Updates, Grayton Beach updates, Horizon Oil Spill Progress, Local Action Plan and Contacts, Miramar Beach Updates, Oil Spill Tracking Maps, Okaloosa Island, Real Estate on the Gulf Coast, Rosemary Beach Updates, Sandestin, Santa Rosa Beach Updates, Seaside Beach updates, Status of Beaches, Top Sail, Videos of Beach, Water and Air Quality, WaterColor Beach Updates
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Posted by Zach on July 14, 2010
Okaloosa Island and Fort Walton Beach are currently clear and the beaches are open. 2010/07/14 at 11:45 am [...] I am on Okaloosa Island. We’ve been here since the 3rd. I promise that I would not even know there had been an oil spill if I hadn’t watched the news before coming here. I have [...]
Categories: Destin Beach Updates, Destin Oil Spill Updates, Okaloosa Island
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Posted by Zach on July 13, 2010
All the Beaches are currently open The predictions are still holding the oil far to the west 2010/07/13 at 11:41 am I wanted to say thanks for this site. I live in Delaware and am in the Air Force and followed this site for weeks trying to decide if I was going to take my [...]
Categories: Crystal Beach updates, Destin Beach Updates, Destin Oil Spill Updates, Local Action Plan and Contacts, Miramar Beach Updates, Oil Spill Tracking Maps, Okaloosa Island, Sandestin, Status of Beaches
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Posted by Zach on July 11, 2010
For almost the last week there were no emegency reports of oil from the State Response Team. The Beaches remain open and there have only been a few isolated areas where patches of tarchips came ashore. This trend will most likely continue as there are streamers of weathered oil in the Gulf. The county [...]
Categories: Destin Beach Updates, Destin Oil Spill Updates, Local Action Plan and Contacts, Miramar Beach Updates, Okaloosa Island, Sandestin, Status of Beaches, Water and Air Quality
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Posted by Zach on July 10, 2010
Shrimp, grouper, tuna and other seafood snatched from the fringes of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico are safe to eat, according to a federal agency inspecting the catch. To date, roughly 400 samples of commonly consumed species caught mostly in open waters — and some from closed areas — have been chemically tested [...]
Categories: Destin Beach Updates, Local Action Plan and Contacts, Miramar Beach Updates, Okaloosa Island, Water and Air Quality
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Posted by Zach on July 7, 2010
Here is some feedback from some of our viewers on their stay (thanks for the updates ) 2010/07/07 at 1:53 pm Just wanted to let everyone know, we stayed at Edgewater in Miramar Beach week of June 26 – July 3. We did have tar balls that would come in with the late afternoon tide. [...]
Categories: Destin Beach Updates, Destin Oil Spill Updates, Miramar Beach Updates, Okaloosa Island, Status of Beaches
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