Makin' it in Memphis: {Travel}: Navarre Beach Vacation.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

{Travel}: Navarre Beach Vacation.

As I mentioned in my last post, as soon as I was done with school I hopped in a car and drove down to the "Redneck Rivera" with my parentals and one of my brothers (Ezra was off in Europe doing an architectural tour - the poor guy!).

My parents have friends with a condo in the Navarre Beach Regency and so we have rented a place there for the past two summers. I highly recommend Navarre. It is close enough to Destin to hit the outlets (oh and we did) but far enough away to not have traffic.

We had a great, relaxing time.. here are some pictures.

Here is my brother Jacob driving late on the way down there - we left after a work meeting I had so we didn't get out of town until 1pm:

This was our view from the condo of the beach looking to the right:

And here we are, on the beach the first day:

It isn't called the "Emerald Coast" for nothing:

Here was our condo view looking left - that is a pier for the Navarre Beach where you can walk all the way out and hang out or fish:

Here's my dad and brother proudly showing off their find of the week - Stella in a can! They had me send this picture to Ez in Europe and Jake, who was back at home being a doctor in training:

Here is a time when we actually had some waves (it was very calm for the most part):

Here is the front of the condo building:

And of course - an outlet stop:

Back on the beach - here's Jacob reading..

The water was so so clear while we were there. It was beautiful:

This is my favorite - a calm, beautiful beach picture:

Another shot of the pier:

One night we went out to dinner (usually my parents cook, they like doing fun recipes on vacation). We went to a sort of hole-in-the-wall local place called East Bay Crab House. It was pretty good!