re: No canopies allowed on beach in Destin...wtf??

That was last years decision. I think they went on to say they revised the size for this year:

"We learned throughout the year that a lot of beach goers liked to be able to use the pop-up style tent and so a lot of the revisions today made that max size a 10 by 10 pop-up style tent as well as mandated that they be used on the top 1/3 of the beach," Kellenberger said.