Type: | Shallow, Flat, Chop |
Hazards: | Shells |
Quality: | Clean |
Best Tide: | Tide Independent |
Generally calm and shallow, large bay. Can get moderate chop if strong southerly wind. Lots of oysters, so avoid cutting up your feet.
Type: | Sand |
Size: | Small |
Hazards: | Trees |
Beach Users: | None |
Narrow white sand beach, sparsely wooded with pines. Plenty of room to layout and launch though.
Best Months: | January, February, March, April, November, December |
Wind Type: | Frontal Winds |
Best Direction: | SSE, S |
Main Direction: | SE, NW |
Winter winds are frontal in nature, SE switching to NW as fronts come through. Cleanest wind here is a straight S or SSE, which has blown across 7 miles of the bay. The prime reason to come here is this is one of the few beaches in this area where the shoreline is not straight East-West. The coast here is NNW-SSE. If the wind is nearly straight North or straight South, this is one of the few sideonshore, sideoffshore coastline areas.
Transport: | Car |
Access: | Short Walk |
White Point is just to the west of the north end of the `Mid Bay Bridge`. You can get to the Mid Bay Bridge from either Destin or Niceville. Signs are prevalent. If you come from Destin side, you must pay $2 toll.
Don't come ashore or drop your kite on private residence yards to the north of the point.