Nine or 10 dive shops dot the shoreline. Destin Harbor is home to 140 vessels, several available to charter for saltwater fishing. Local anglers proudly refer to themselves as Fishheads. If you count municipal, military and private courses, this small section of Florida sports at least 16 golf courses, maybe more. Burnt Pine Golf Club and Baytowne, both at the Sandestin Resort, and the Links Course at Sandestin.
Tennis courts are plentiful, especially at the resorts.
Even if you're not part of the sporting life, you'll find things to do. Beachgoers and wilderness seekers find peaceful vistas and pleasant places to daydream. Guns, bombs, vintage aircraft, missiles and rockets are on display. There's an Indian Temple Mound Museum in Fort Walton Beach and the Heritage Museum that highlights parts of the Panhandle's past in Valparaiso. One of the biggest and newest things in the Panhandle is also one of the smallest and oldest.