Ocean Villa 1001, Sand & Seafoam Villa

09/26/2021

Fall is the best time to visit the beach! The water is around 83 degrees and the view is breathtaking!

10/03/2020

It’s a beautiful day at the beach today. The gulf is like glass!

07/26/2020

01/21/2020

The Ocean Villa segment of the Front Beach Rd redevelopment project is now complete. New sidewalks, bike & trolley lanes and new landscaping have been added.

11/27/2019

Love to watch the Ocean sparkling like diamonds?

11/26/2019

Another beautiful sunrise from Sand & Seafoam Villa!

09/11/2019

Why is the sand so white on the Florida Panhandle?

The sand here along the North Florida Coast is among the whitest, cleanest and softest in the world! What you might not know, is that when you walk on the beaches here, you are actually walking on the Appalachian Mountains.

The sand here is comprised mainly of 99% pure silica quartz washed down from the mountains by the Apalachicola River. The quartz is ground to a perfect oval in each grain of sand. It is so fine in texture, it literally "squeaks" under your toes as you walk on it!

Normally, such quartz has a rosy pink tint because of it's oxide coating, but the sugary-white quartz lost it's coating somewhere along it's watery journey thousands of years ago.

Visitors rave about it, and people call it the "sugar-white beaches" of Northwest Florida. The sand accumulated creating sand bars along the river bends and streams on its long journey all the way down south to the edges of the emerald waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The white sand also helps our beaches from heating up like an oven in the Summer time, unlike other beaches with darker and coarser sand.

05/29/2019

04/17/2019

Hang your towels at Sand & Seafoam Villa this summer.

04/15/2019

Ocean Villa is just a few steps from the “Daiquiri Shack”, serving both alcoholic and non-alcoholic frozen drinks.