Crab Key

• Location: Destin
• Lat / Lon: N 30° 24.469' / W 086° 31.614'
• Description:

  Head south from GIWW aiming for a point midway between G59 and G17. Feel your way in and drop your hook as close to the shoal area as you feel comfortable. Large shoal area just west of Destin Channel offers spectacular swimming on an incoming tide. White sand and clear water most of the time. Lots of boats on weekends, not all of them operating safely. 

  NOTE: Per Florida Statute 327.4109

  The owner or operator of a vessel or floating structure may not anchor or moor such that the nearest approach of the anchored or moored vessel or floating structure is:

  1. Within 150 feet of any marina, boat ramp, boatyard, or other vessel launching or loading facility;
  2. Within 300 feet of a superyacht repair facility. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term "superyacht repair facility" means a facility that services or repairs a yacht with a water line of 120 feet or more in length; or
  3. Within 100 feet outward from the marked boundary of a public mooring field or a lesser distance if approved by the commission upon request of a local government within which the mooring field is located. The commission may adopt rules to implement this subparagraph.