Since I first started visiting my sister-in-law in Pensacola, I fell in love with the beaches in Florida’s Panhandle. I grew up 10 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean and it still has my heart, but something about the serenity and beautiful clear water of the Emerald Coast area has won me over.

Today I wanted to share with you some photos from last summer’s family beach vacation to 30A and the Seaside and Blue Mountain Beach area!

Last summer, my family drove up to the northwest part of our state to visit some beaches we’ve never been to before. Scenic 30-A is a small stretch of quaint beach communities up in the northwest area of Florida. It’s literally like driving through small town paradise. I’ve never seen anything like it before. Seaside is probably the more popular town of the cluster and has the most crowd, shops, traffic, restaurants etc. We stayed in Blue Mountain Beach which was a little further north (7 minutes to be exact) and it was perfectly isolated and quiet, just how I like it. Blue Mountain Beach (and the other little towns nearby) is close enough to see it all from Seaside to Destin.

Here are some pics from the week we spent in the area last summer – we are happily heading back to the exact same place in just a little less than a month!

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It’s hard to believe that its been almost 3 weeks since we got back from our vacation to Sanibel. I’ve been wanting to post up some pics from our time there, so here we go (finally).

This was our 3rd time visiting the island and each time we’ve stayed in a different place. I would have to say that the condo we stayed at this time around was my favorite. We rented a unit at Loggerhead Cay through a site called VRBO and to be honest, the unit we found was a complete gem. The owners keep it up extremely well, we found it so comfortable and clean and stocked well for the unexpected (flashlights that were needed during a storm, tennis rackets, beach and pool toys, cabinets and drawers full of movies, books and board games, a stocked wine rack).

I just loved this…

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