This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Gulf County Florida. All opinions are 100% mine.
We love outdoor adventure, and this year visited zoos, petted penguins, and spent a lot of time learning about animals on farms and in nature. My children love animals, and it’s something I want to encourage. I was a city girl growing up, so their love for all things outdoors and creatures is bringing me out of my shell too, and the perfect place for a family that loves the outdoors, nature, and adventure is Gulf County, Florida.
Gulf County is comprised of 244 miles of coastline along and around the Florida panhandle. Prime season starts from mid-August to mid-March, so you can take your family on the adventure of a lifetime to the place nature is allowed to flourish and grow, undisturbed.
Gulf County connects the Gulf of Mexico, the pristine, saltwater St. Joseph Bay, Indian Pass Lagoon, the Gulf County Canal, the Intracoastal Waterway, the Apalachicola Bay and river basin (a brackish mix of both), and the freshwater of the Dead Lakes and Chipola River- the varied waters are a source of magnificent wildlife and adventures for people, including kayaking, fishing, hiking, bird watching, snorkeling, ecotouring, and much, much more. The farthest adventures are within 15 minutes of any point.
And no two adventures are exactly the same ♥︎
Enjoy wildlife off the beaten path
The weather is beautiful and life is relaxed around Gulf County, Fl, and that includes Lake Wimico, a houseboat village that is a nature-lover’s dream. You can find alligators and other wildlife, maybe even a shark or eagle’s nest, and truly appreciate living life at a slower pace like it was in the past- the way life is meant to be lived and appreciated.
My boys would love to see alligators and sharks, making this one of our must-sees while visiting Gulf County, Florida.
Find turtles in the Bay
St. Joseph’s Bay is teeming with great fish and sea life, and may be the perfect place to try kayak fishing and enjoy an eco-tour. Find sea turtles and dolphins, and see them up close and personal! These beautiful sea creatures are favored by so many for their grace and friendliness, and we would put this as our #1 must-do when we visit.
Take an ecotour to go a little deeper
The local culture is friendly and interconnected, and the residents are very passionate about their home and the adventures it offers. Many live off the land – “I work every day I eat” – and they love to be outdoors. They also enjoy sharing what they love, and ecotours are unstructured and depend on what the day is like. Bio-experts teach and show visitors and are spontaneous. Who knows what you will find!
Since we love to just go with what the day brings, and want to think our adventure is unique and unlike any that anyone else ever had or will have, we love this!
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Tell me which of the adventures in the Adventure Guide you and your family would enjoy taking part in, and why, for a chance to win a $50 American Express gift card to use toward your adventures! US only, 18+, ends August 25th, 2016.
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Ready for a magical nature adventure?
You can plan your Gulf County adventure starting here: Adventure Guide. Feel free to call or email the concierge and find out more- it’s easy to plan your great escape!
Congrats winners John & Carol!
The Bay at St Joseph Peninsula State Park looks like a great place to visit: One can enjoy clean beaches, camping, fishing, you can picnic, boating, enjoy the wilderness preserve – something for everyone in the family. Thanks for the chance 🙂
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Definitely the Swim with the turtles!!! How exciting that would be to share as a family!! 🙂
My family would love to do the seahorse water safari. I know my son would have a blast there. My son is a huge animal lover as well as me. I think hiking in the St. Joseph Peninsula state park would be fun as well. We enjoy being in nature.
We would love the An Eco-Adventure with a Bio-Expert because we are all natural beauty lovers.
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https://www.visitgulf.com/adventure-guides/an-eco-adventure-with-a-bio-expert#story because I would like to leave the world better than when I enjoyed it.
Horseback riding on the beach would be amazing because we’ve never done that before.
Swim with the Turtles
I would love to go on the St. Vincent Island National Wildlife Refuge because my family loves being on the water and seeing nature!
My family would enjoy the St. Joseph Peninsula adventure.
Swim with the turtles. They are so adorable!
I would enjoy horseback riding on the beach. I love horses and beaches.
The Eco-Tour with Captain Burke would be my thing, totally. I spend a lot of time watching animals, reading about them, and writing about them. My focus for the last year has been on the largest of all dolphins, orcas!
We would love to go kayaking in the bay….looks beautiful and fun!
Would love to get an Eco-Adventure with a Bio-Expert.Love a water adventure and get to see different marine life and birds! A sunset cruise and fishing would be so enjoyable! And how exciting to get a tour from a Marine Biologist!
The ecotourist would be my favorite thing to do
St. Joseph’s bay because we like to fish.
Oh my! We are huge water fans so I would say the Sea Horse Adventure
We would love the afternoon adventure on bikes through loggerhead run!
We’d love St. Joseph’s Bay, because we’d love to find starfish!
We would love to go to the Port St. Joe Marina and would love to take a sunset cruise or go snorkeling through one of the guided tours. It would be a great adventure and lots of fun.
We’d enjoy th Indian pass adventure cause it’s in a slow moving canoe
My family would enjoy the eco-adventure because we enjoy learning about wildlife.
We’d love the eco-adventure with a bio expert! We are very into wildlife and I like the laid-back approach it would have.
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The eco adventure sounds prefect.
My family loves riding horse, horseback riding on the beach would be great to enjoy.
I would love horse riding on the beach. We love riding but we have only done in on out in county and never on a beach.
Our family would love to do horseback riding on the beach because all of us — especially my girls — are major horse lovers and can’t get enough of them!
I am a snowbird and spend my winters in Florida our area has many eco tours available and my family enjoys those when visiting me.
I would love to go on an Eco-Adventure with a Bio-Expert! I would love to learn more about Florida!
My kids would love to find the turtles in the Bay! Thanks for the chance!
Oh I would love to try the Paddleboarding in the Bay! Oh that is something I have wanted to try…would be so beautiful there!
I’d like to take the boat trip of Lake Wimico to see the wildlife and take a ton pictures.
We would love An Eco-Adventure because my family loves nature
i like the guide for the off beaten path because when i vacation i HATE running into tourists! 🙂 i want to explore the unknown and experience new adventures.
Can I pick all of them please? I could use a vacation. Horseback riding at St. Joseph’s Bay would be amazing. But anything with animals would be fun too!
We’d have fun going on the An Eco Adventure with a Bio Expert. We love to be outdoors and learn about nature.
Thanks so much for the giveaway.
I’m a long distance backpacker and my family loves the outdoors, so hiking for us.
We would enjoy the Eco-Adventure with a Bio-Expert. We love learning about nature!
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Adventures in the Adventure Guide my family and I would enjoy most? Really hard to choose! It would have to be one with lots of wild life, as I love that!! Indian Pass Lagoon sounds so exciting!! I love the name too, as I am part American Indian and so proud of it. Love the pictures of the little turtles!! Thanks so much and you have a fabulous day!!
My children would love to swim with turtles, and learn more about them. Everything sounds good!
My wife and I would choose to go on an Eco-Adventure with an expert.
I’d love to see everything Indian Pass has to offer.
We would love to take part in the turtle treasure hunt in Cape San Blas! That sounds like such a good, fun time for the whole family.
I would absolutely love to go horseback riding on the beach
I would love to go horse back riding on the beach, it would be the perfect way to celebrate my wedding anniversary!
All the beaches mentioned here https://www.visitgulf.com/adventure-guides/a-different-beach-every-day?url=adventure-guides&pg=4#story sound awesome!
I don’t know if I could decide which place to stay, but I am not much of a camper so I would prefer to stay in a hotel or rent a house or cabin. While viewing the photographs, I saw a hammock and that is exactly where I want to be. I would love to go snorkling with my son, ride horses on the beach, go on an ecotour of the wildlife, see the seahorses and the turtles and just relax in that beautiful slow-paced wonderful area. Thanks for sharing. If I ever do get a vacation, that is exactly where I will go.
Oh Hubby and I would definately love an Eco-Adventure with a Bio-Expert. How amazing would that be! All our questions answered too! What a dream come true! Thanks for the chance~
We would love the swim with the turtles!!
I have always loved nature and science so I would love to go on an ecotour with Captain Charlene Burke.
We would enjoy Adventure Off the Beaten Path because it sounds really interesting.
Wow…looks like so much fun! The EcoTour looks fantastic!
My family and would do swim with turtles, I think my kids would get a kick out of that adventure
My family would love to do the An Eco-Adventure with a Bio-Expert because we love to find new creatures. We love to see what nature provides to us.
The ecotour to go a little deeper sounds like a blast!!!
i would love to take my granddaughter to see this
I would love to swim with the sea turtles!
My kids would love to go Horseback Riding on the beach. They love horses 🙂
We would love the An Eco-Adventure with a Bio-Expert. What a great way to learn.
We would definitely pick the Adventure Off the Beaten Path. Exploring on your own is the best!
I would just love to pet a dolphin. That has always been a great dream of mine. I love all animals, and this would be a dream come true! Thanks for the great offer, you’re awesome xo
My family would love to kayak over to St. Vincent Island!
I would love the horse riding on the beach because I’m scared of the water. 🙂
I like to look at the ocean but swimming in it – no way.
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Adventure off the beaten path. Lake Wimico looks beautiful.
Me and my boyfriend love things that aren’t so common – so we’d definetely do the ‘off the beaten path’ one.
St. Joseph’s bay and Adventures Off the Beaten Path. Beacause I love to fish/kayak and go walking on trails and that area looks beautiful
The swim with turtles looks exciting and fun my little family loves turtles!
Off The Beaten Path sounds like a fun adventure.
I would love the shark fishing adventure. How much fun would that be.
It would be so different a n d unique.
We would love to go horseback riding on the beach because we love the beach and we love to ride horses!
Swimming with the turtles would be our #1 choice. My daughter would absolutely love it. It sounds like a great experience.
Aww the baby turtles are so cute! I’d Swim with the turtles.
I think my family would really enjoy the St. Joseph Bay, The Heartbeat of Gulf County adventure. We love fishing and kayaking and the fact that the kayaks have pedals would be great for the kids. I also think they would really enjoy being on the eco-tour, seeing dolphins, sea turtles and land and air animals. Sounds like a great family adventure.
My family would really enjoy an Eco-Adventure with a Bio-Expert because we love wildlife & would enjoy seeing wildlife, such as Dolphins, sea turtles, water birds, etc., & would enjoy learning more about them and the area!
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That horse back riding looks fantastic. Horse’s mouth adventure?
The seashore water safari would be so much family fun!
We would LOVE to go horseback riding on the beach!
Definitely would want to go a little deeper and visit the sea turtles, =)
My daughters love wildlife so they would love St. Joseph’s bay so that they could look at the sea turtles and dolphins!
We would lI’ve st Joseph bay for kayak fishing;)
I would love to learn about the Adventures off the beaten path! That sounds so very relaxing!
I am saying St. Jospeh Bay – I like to fish!
We would love the Adventure Off the Beaten Path because it’s so nice to do something different and interesting!
Adventures for the Whole Family – or Multiple Families would be a good adventure for a big family!
I would love off the beaten bath
Swimming with turtles look so fun!
Would love to go on an eco-tour with Captain Charlene Burke!
The family loves to fish, so I would have to say St John Bay.
We would absolutely love to swim with the turtles, that would be amazing!
Hiking on the Bayview Trail
We would love the An Eco-Adventure with a Bio-Expert because we love to discover the natural life
Thank You for the chance
Adventure off the beaten path. We like to explore places that few people go to or know about especially when we are tourist. We get a real sense of what the place is like when we travel off the beaten path.
We would love the adventure off the beaten path because new adventures are the best kind
I would love to do the Ecotour! This looks like a wonderful place to visit.
We would like to swim with the turtles and come close to the dolphins. And get off the beaten path. Maybe even kayak.
We would do the seahorse water safari’s. My boys would love it!
My family and I would really enjoy seeing the GCFL “Baby Turtle Red Carpet”. My little guy loves animals and who doesn’t love turtles. :)Its a win-win all around.
i would do the off the beaten path adventure. i am not really into touristy stuff and prefer just experiencing real life!
Adventure Off the Beaten Path is my thing.
The SEA TURTLES!!!!!!! My daughter loves sea turtles. She wants to be a marine biologist when she gets older. We saw sea turtles hatch on vacation and thats all she talks about!!!!
Our choice will be the Eco-Adventure with a Bio-expert because it’s always fun, and much better, to have something lasting, such as learning about our enviroment, to take back with you after the adventure is over.
I would definitely choose the Adventure Off the Beaten Path!! My family and I love going places that are not “the usual” place. Somewhere that not many people get to see. That would be awesome!!
We would all enjoy the Adventure Off the Beaten Path.
We are natural beauty lovers.
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It would probably be the shark fishing adventure trip provided by fish n express because it’s something different than fishing, but I would do the catch and release
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we’re animal lovers so taking an eco adventure with the chance to see dolphins and other wild life would be great
My husband and I would love to do the Eco tour with Captain Charlene because we love wildlife watching. Sounds great to be out on a boat exploring!
I would love to go kayaking
I would love to go horse back riding it sounds like so much fun
Swim with the turtles! My daughter would love it