Emerald Surf Condominiums, Navarre Beach, Florida

04/16/2025

🐢 Sea turtle season is just 16 days away. Make sure you are prepared. It’s easy! 🌊

🌑 LIGHTS OUT - If you are a Gulf front resident or visitor you can make sure you turn out porch lights, close curtains. Please no flood lights.

⛱️ Fill in holes, remove all beach toys, umbrellas and chairs after your time on the beach. Knock down sand castles. Leaving only your footprints. 👣

🔦 Sea turtles dig the dark. Night walks are fun. Leave your cell phones off and if you need a light make it red.

🐢 Sea Turtle Season runs from May 1- November 1. Help make it great this year. 😊👍🏼

Gulf Coast Turtle Watch

07/10/2021

08/08/2020

We’re expecting hatchlings! Beaches all along the Florida Panhandle will start welcoming hatchlings very soon. Here on Navarre Beach we have 6 nests and if each nest averages 90 healthy and fertilized eggs, that could be 540 hatchlings!

Few hatchlings survive to adulthood due to the natural threats that await them once they emerge from their nests. Help start these hatchlings off on the right flipper, here’s how you can help:

LIGHTS OUT. Keep the beach dark, do not use flashlights or other bright white lights on the beach, shield interior lighting by drawing shades or curtains.

KEEP IT FLAT. At the end of your fun in the sun, if you dug it, fill it! It you built it, flattened it.

LEAVE NO TRACE. Remove ALL recreational beach items (e.g. tents, canopies, floats, chairs, toys, etc) from the beach EACH night.

DO NOT DISTURB. If you see a sea turtle nesting, keep a respectable distance, stay out of her line of sight, remain quiet and do not use flash photography. When she leaves, please stay out of the nesting area. These are protected species - disturbing, touching or harassing a nest, hatchling or sea turtle is illegal. If you see someone disturbing a nest or sea turtle, please call local law enforcement.

KNOW WHO TO CALL FOR HELP. If you come across a sea turtle that is stranded or dead; a hatchling that is wandering in a road, parking lot; or directions other than the water; or if you see someone disturbing a nest or turtle, call the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Division of Law Enforcement at 1-888-404-FWCC or *FWC from your cell phone.

08/01/2020

Please be mindful of our majestic sea creatures who come ashore to continue their cycle.

Today Navarre Beach received its 6th Loggerhead sea turtle nest! All the nests on Navarre Beach have been identified as Loggerhead sea turtles. Nests are identified by studying the unique tracks left behind as their pattern and size help determine the species of sea turtle. Loggerheads have an alternating crawl pattern, average 36 inches long and weigh approximately 250 pounds. A female Loggerhead may lay 2 to 5 clutches of eggs in one season and each nest could hold up to 100 eggs! Incubation takes about 60 days, depending on other environmental factors like temperature and rainfall.

Sea turtle nesting season continues till the end of October. Please help keep the beach sea turtle safe by following these steps:

· Pick Up Trash
· Leave It Flat – if you dig it, fill it! If you built it, knock it down.
· Lights Out. Do not use flashlights or other bright white lights on the beach at night. Draw curtains or shades to help shield interior lighting from the beach.
· Leave No Trace. Remove ALL recreational beach items (e.g. tents, canopies, floats, chairs, toys, etc) from the beach EACH night.
· Do Not Disturb. If you are fortunate to see a sea turtle nesting, keep a respectable distance, stay out of her line of sight, remain quiet and do not use flash photography. When she leaves, please stay out of the nesting area. These are protected species - disturbing, touching or harassing a nest, hatchling or sea turtle is illegal.
· If you see someone disturbing a nest or sea turtle, please call local law enforcement.

If you find a disorientated hatchlings or a dead, sick, or injured sea turtle, please call FWC's 24-hour Wildlife Alert Number at 1-888-404-FWCC (1-888-404-3922).

05/28/2020

Spend a weekend exploring one of Florida’s hidden-gem beach towns.

05/28/2020

Exciting!

09/25/2019

05/01/2018

NAVARRE — According to the travel website, Only in Your State, Navarre Beach is a relaxing beach community that has it all.And locals would agree.

07/31/2014

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Want to save a sea turtle TODAY? It’s easy. FILL IT IN.

While these holes may seem benign to beachgoers, they can be deadly to sea turtles. Sea turtles are massive, weighing upwards of 300 lbs. Their strong flippers are well equipped for surfing and swimming but they don't have a 4WD switch to throw when they reach the beach to nest. As graceful and effortless as they look in the water, they are equally lumbering and awkward on land. With a low center of gravity, minimal sight view over the sand ridges and often in the pitch black of night, these nesting turtles easily succumb to holes and other beach obstacles. They need our help to restore the beach to its natural state at the end of each day. As the sunsets on your beach activities, please take a moment to fill in holes, knock down sand obstacles, remove all tents, canopies, nets, furniture. Let’s help these threatened and endangered animals live in the wild for another generation to see.

12/25/2011

Happy Holidays to everyone, everywhere :)

06/12/2011

Taken May 8, 2011....loverly :)