View dozens of bottles of sand from around the world at the Destin Chamber— proving that the region’s sand is the whitest.
The Lighthouse and Museum is a great place to watch the Blue Angels practice.
barrier island just east of the park and a great place for snorkeling. An interesting and maybe overlooked attraction is the Man in the Sea Museum with deep-sea diving gear, transportation modules, and the original SeaLab I hull from the 1960s’ U.S. Navy program. Mounted outside the museum, the red submarine-like tube was the world’s first underwater living facility—an 11-day experiment submerged nearly 200 feet. Other nearby attractions include the GulfQuest National Maritime Museum exploring Gulf of Mexico maritime science and history, and the USS Alabama , both in Mobile. A final stop at the Destin Chamber convinces me that the region’s sand is perhaps the whitest on Earth. On display are several dozen bottles with sand from all over the world—brown sand from Prince Edward Islands, Chile’s salt and pepper sand, ivory brown from Belize and Saudi Arabia’s pink-tinted granules, for example. “Year after year people bring sand from all over the world,” says Vice President of Communications Elizabeth Spies. “And all that helps illustrate how white Destin’s sand really is.”
Destin’s carved magnolia tree features dolphins, fish, turtles, and a mermaid.
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