Perdido Key & Orange Beach, the way it actually is.
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Where to eat tonight
Chris's picks — nobody paid to be here. Prices are from each restaurant's own menu and change.
5-Day Forecast
Forecast via the National Weather Service.
Breeze is up — good day for a wind shade
Wind is 9 mph N on the Key right now. A Shibumi needs only 2–3 mph to fly, so it should fly without help today.
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The Key Today · Saturday, September 26
86° water — basically bathwater. Refreshing as a warm hug.
Run over to Orange Beach for the wharf and the Ferris wheel at dusk.
Latest
Sand in the Coffee, Vol. 113: the first cold front, and the flat water the morning after
The best beach morning of the year usually comes right after the first cold front of fall: flat, clear water and empty sand. Most visitors skip it because the forecast said 'cooler.'
The Salt Line, Vol. 104: An Invasion Best Handled With a Fork
Almost everything the Gulf asks of us is restraint: stay off the dunes, don't feed the pelicans, give the dolphins room. The lionfish is the one invader it asks us to take, and ideally, to eat.
The Friday Report: the Gulf lies down for the weekend, bull reds work the Pass, and Florida snapper has a gap coming
Our weekly read from the bay to the bottom — a choppy Friday giving way to a flat, light-wind stretch, the fall redfish and mullet run building inshore, and a heads-up that Florida's red snapper closes October 5–8 before reopening.
Out of the Gulf, still grinning.
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