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The Perfect 10 Turtle Beach Inn, Florida By Neal Thompson
Two hours southwest of Tallahassee, in a blink of a hamlet called Indian Pass, the Turtle Beach Inn comprises two multifamily cottages and a beach house with four guest rooms, all on stilts and nestled beneath tall slash pines and sabal palms. We came to explore this remote nub of Florida's Panhandle and to see a beach so clean and untouched that loggerhead turtles nest and hatch here each summer. St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, three miles from the inn, was rated No. 1 in 2002 by coastal geologist Stephen Leatherman, a.k.a. Dr. Beach. So we gamboled the park's maze of bulbous and stark-white dunes, snorkeled, and raked a few scallops. But the highlight was renting two double sea kayaks and paddling atop the transparent waters, looking down on the lush sea life we'd scooped into our net.
Neal writes for Outside magazine, Men's Health, and the Washington Post Magazine. He is currently finishing a biography of the first American in space, Alan Shepard, and is starting a second book on moonshine, bootlegging, and the early days of NASCAR. Neal lives in Asheville, NC, with his wife and two sons. |
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