Roy Hardin
Beach Lover
except the snakes
OK, Nodilberthere, we will agree that talking abour your hair on SoWal is not one of the things we love about SOWAL. Has anybody mentioned the georgeous photos that Kurt and others post? Or the Mountainfilm events?

I love that the wildlife (coyotes, deer, rabbit, armadillo, possum, racoons, wild pigs, bears, et al...) outnumber the tourists.....

When I moved here from Washington State a long time ago I'd never seen white sand, only snow. I love the sand. I also love the crabs, the gulf fishing, and running through Grayton State park and enjoying the wildlife. There are so many beautiful, beautiful ........ people can be strange, however ,enjoying the strange beauty that surrounds us on 30a, priceless!
Mimosas at Red Bar on Sundays, monarch butterflys in early fall, friends that I have met along the way, a long bike ride down 30A, the dunes that look like snow covered mountains, "that small town feel", a glass of wine and apps on the beach at sunset, being lucky enough that life has lead me to live here...the list could go on and on.
I love making plans to do a lot of things (e.g., concerts and movies at Seaside and Rosemary Beach, Friday night appetizers and wine at Alys Beach and Wild Olives, things like that) and then forgetting to do them because we're happy enough being at the pool, beach, and porch.
I love it that the airline lost my suitcase and didn't deliver it for a few days and I didn't miss it at all because I had my bathing suit and contact lenses in my carry-on luggage - nice to know I didn't need anything else!
I love the quiet, early mornings at the beach with a good book, the sunsets, swimming in the ocean on hot August days, watching kids looking for snow crabs at sunset, watching the beach change over and over again after each hurricane/storm (knowing that Mother Nature will bring all the sand back sooner or later), and SoWal.com.
I love the grouper sandwich at Georges, their clever frog sign with the light shaped like a fly, and our waiter last Thursday named Miko from Poland. One of the best waiters I've ever come across - so good we came back the next day. And I love the new donut truck at Alys beach - really good donuts.
Honestly, I can see why you love it because you "feel" it. 