This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Visit Gulf County for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.
Fall Family Traditions That Last a Lifetime
We live up north, so our fall family traditions generally involve a lot of snow and blue skies. Don’t get me wrong, I love our family traditions, but sometimes, I wish they could involve an adventure someplace sunny and warm. Just for a change of pace.
That’s why I went to the Gulf County Adventure Guide and started pulling up some adventures in Gulf County, Florida that could be great family adventures that turn into family traditions. With miles and miles of beaches and nature trails, as well as so much wildlife to enjoy, Gulf County is the perfect place to have a family adventure this fall.
Turtle Treasure Hunt 
As I perused the adventure guide, I found an adventure that would make the perfect family tradition for our family. It’s a turtle treasure hunt! We love to be outside, and we love to see wildlife. Here’s what the Adventure Guide had to say.
Join adventure guide Jessica Swindell on a Turtle patrol on the beach. Only taking in 4 people at a time, Jessica gives visitors a chance to view baby sea turtle nestings in the highest density-nesting beach in North Florida. Help her look for signs of nesting and participate in the process of protecting loggerhead turtles. This part of the walk is really about marking and protecting the nests. Nests just look like big disturbed area of sand. The moms do a good job of camouflaging their nests. We determine where the clutch is and dig just to the top egg. Once we find that, we measure the depth and then put a self-releasing screen on top for protection. We place posts and caution tape around the nest so people know to stay away. We number it and place a sign on it. We can continue to get new nests from May through early to mid Sept.
I know my kids would love this. They already love turtles, and they love to see nature up close and personal. I think they’d get a huge charge out of seeing turtle nests. 
While that’s at the top of my list, I’d also love to see the Dolphin Parade! Did you know if you wake up early enough, you just might catch the dolphins playing close to the shore? Can you even imagine how neat that would be? My kids would absolutely LOVE that! 
A day of fishing would be fabulous too! Whether it’s shark fishing with tips from local experts or just sitting back on a boat and waiting to see what bites, honestly I just love the idea of being out on a boat all day!
Fall Family Traditions in Gulf County
Now that you know what I’d love my fall family traditions to be, I’d love to hear from you. Visit the Gulf County Adventure Guide and tell me which adventures you think would make fantastic fall family traditions for your family.
If a turtle treasure hunt, dolphin watching or fishing isn’t your speed, you can find other amazing adventures like bird watching, hiking, and so much more.
While you’re at it, enter for your chance to win a $50.00 gift card so you can have an adventure of your own right in your backyard. Check out the details to enter below! Family traditions are important, so make sure yours are memorable in Gulf County, Florida.
I do love Florida but haven’t visited Gulf Country before! We usually visit Tampa/Clearwater as my parents have a place there. Will have to take a drive to the area.
Oh my that sounds like a wonderful place to go! My son would love the turtles.
Baby turtles are so adorable. We have a tradition on Sundays. We spend the afternoon baking all the treats we want for the week.
OMG The turtles are so cute. We don’t have particular family traditions but we certainly love to vacation.
What fun ideas! My kids love when we go down to the coast and spend time at the beach and on the water.
I can’t get over the cuteness of the baby sea turtles! My children would enjoy seeing them in person.
Beautiful and those turtles are adorable. My kids love anything with animals and like you said, it’s important to have solid family traditions :)
Those little turtles are very cute, I wanted to touch them too. I’m so glad that you had great fun bonding with your family.
I’d love to see the dolphins playing close to shore. I do think that would be amazing to see.
The turtle nesting experience is the absolute coolest. That is a total bucket list item for me!
I would love to go see the sea turtles. I’ve seen a few in captivity but none in their natural habitat. Plus, going to see the dolphins would be fun too.
I love the gulf coast and usually go every year in September. I love to go snorkeling, parasailing, and just hanging out on the beach.
I would love to see those turtles and dolphins. I bet my son would love to see them too. We love going to a corn maze during the fall season. And I think we’re going to create a new family fall tradition soon. :)
So cool you can help mark off the nesting areas. I love that Florida protects the turtles so much. I would love to take my family to the Gulf, it looks absolutely gorgeous.
It would be a great experience to see baby turtles go back to the ocean.
OH I would love to go to the Gulf! Just for the baby sea turtles! LOL!
I’d love to visit, those turtles are so cute!
How cool are those little turtles!? This looks like a really fun place for a family to visit! Thank you!
Great and fun way to have a family bonding. I love those turtles, its really cute.
This looks great. Sounds like a dream come true. Definitely one my bucket list!
What a fun ideas. and i love the place looks like a great place to visit and the turtles was really cute.
What fantastic traditions! We don’t vacation much (once a year) but we like to make traditions at home for holidays and we take annual family vacations.
That is a beautiful place to visit. I usually try to take a little trip in the fall.
My family and I went to Florida over the summer and we did get to see the dolphins in the water. They weren’t super close but they were close enough we could see them pretty well. I love all the sea creatures and things Florida has to offer.
My family use to vacation down there in gulf county when I was a kid. We made a lot of family traditions on the beaches. One of my favorite was feeding the sea gulls and shelling. Great times.
Those turtles are so cute!! I love everything about the ocean and this makes me wish I could go there now!
This looks like the absolute perfect place for my family to vacation. We LOVE the ocean and are seriously obsessed with sea life. Those turtles are adorable! And my boys wish they were dolphins. Literally.
It’s always nice to create family traditions, it makes it memorable for the kids. This is a great idea for a family tradition! I love it.
Great, fun ideas. Those turtles are so cute. I have never seen such tiny turtles up close.
We love the Gulf! We go to Naples as much as we can! I love looking for Dolphins and seeing all the people on the pier fishing. I would go again tomorrow if I could.
I’ve got to get the family down to Gulf County. We’ve been near there before, but we were at Disney. I think next time, we should get out and see nature.
Those are all such fun ideas. I want to go on a turtle treasure hunt!!