Category Archives: Alys Beach News

Island Living guru, writer, designer and supermodel India Hicks recently shared her family’s vacation experience this summer at Alys Beach with readers of Ocean Drive magazine. Ocean Drive is a high-fashion and design magazine based in Miami. “I am blessed with having seen a great deal of the world,” wrote India. “But few places are easily within reach and far from the […]

Fabulous news!!! In a very exciting development for our region, Southwest Airlines announced today that they will offer flights into our new Bay County International Airport — which is under construction just 14 miles from Alys Beach! Starting in May 2010, Southwest will operate eight flights a day to and from four cities with a daily […]

An image captured by photographer Tommy Crow was featured on Womansday.com this week. The image was taken during the Digital Graffiti festival in Alys Beach in June. The photo captured awe-inspiring outdoor projection artwork by Yugoslavian artist Zlatko Cosic. Cosic originally screened his experimental short silent film in 2008 for Light Works, organized by The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis. It […]

Well, Alys Beach’s unique sense of style is frequently a topic on various architecture and interior design blogs, so we can’t possibly share them all. But we thought this particular coveting was pretty well done: http://www.casasugar.com/5496230 Have you seen Alys Beach mentioned somewhere across the Blogosphere? Please let us know! You can just email a link to [email protected].

Digital Graffiti hostess INDIA HICKS enjoyed her time at Alys Beach so much in June that she returned here last week to spend a relaxing week-long vacation with her husband, David Flint Wood, and their four children. While here, the family enjoyed everything from wakeboarding lessons to YOLO boarding to parasailing to pottery making to art classes at Studio B to tennis […]

Another custom Alys Beach home has captured a national architectural award, this time from a field of over 1,100 competing entries. Currently in its tenth year, the Residential Architect Design Awards (RADA) is the most prestigious and competitive residential architecture awards program in the country, with only 10 “Grand Awards” being awarded this year. The winning Alys […]

Five gentle whale sharks appeared just offshore from Grayton Beach last week. They remained in our local waters for two days. Many of the people chartering the Grayton Beach fishing boats and one group of divers were able to photograph and swim with the whales during the two-day event. A whale shark is not a […]

Did you see the article in last week’s The New York Times article entitled “White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cutters” by Felicity Barringer? According to the article, “studies show that white roofs reduce air-conditioning costs by 20 percent or more in hot, sunny weather” and “lower energy consumption also means fewer of the carbon dioxide emissions that […]

McCaskill & Company recently announced that nearly $15,000 was raised through their “Wag & Win” Rolex Giveaway to benefit Alaqua Animal Refuge, a local non-profit organization that provides shelter and adoption services for animals. Alys Beach resident George Hartley (owner of Seagrove Village Market Café, George’s at Alys Beach, and the new Mi Cocina in Seacrest) won the raffle and the rare $10,000 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona […]

Alys Beach residents Winston and Martha Wilkinson recently presented our community with a very special gift: A gorgeous antique billiards table. “They just said ‘here you go’ out of the blue,” said Alys Beach’s Town Founder, Jason Comer. “It’s the sort of generosity that one could only imagine.” Antique enthusiasts and experts, the Wilkinsons originally purchased the […]