Destin was named for Leonard Destin, a fisherman who moved to Florida's Panhandle in ... Another lovely beach nearby is Jetty East Beach, an uncrowded gem great for fishing. However, whirlpools ...

Because it's only about a mile from Destin's west jetty, NCO gets swell without the degree of drift that other beaches have, and there are waves all the way from the west jetty to the beach club.

On big days, the right-hander can be a spectacularly large, winding point wave that breaks on a shallow sandbar far outside of the east jetty of Destin Pass. The problem with surfing there is that ...