BioGeaux

Local here that lives in Gulf Breeze and watches the Blues practice every week. Have seen them hundreds of times and still sprint across the house to catch a glimpse of them flying when I hear roar outside.

For the July beach show, the Angels will begin setup and spotting/marker practice on Wednesday morning at 8am and fly for a few hours. It's called Breakfast with the Blues. They will not fly all of their formations/maneuvers on Wednesday, but still cool to see them all over the sky.

Thursday, the Blues will fly their full performance over the beach. Friday is the full airshow practice with all acts performing. Saturday is the same as Friday, but the "official" airshow with much larger crowds. People start arriving on the island as early as 5am and it is a nightmare to get out. 3+ hours is not unheard of.

If you want the full airshow experience without as much of a crowd, come on Friday. If you just want to see the Blues fly their show, Thursday is perfect with even smaller crowds than Friday.

November show this year will be incredible with the Blues and the Thunderbirds performing. Hope this helps.

I’m down at Portofino and the wind and rain are still raging. Starting to slow a bit, but impossible to walk outside. High tide is in about an hour with a pretty good surge right now...I’m hearing 5-8 feet.

Sound side at Portofino is completely flooded. Pier is completely underwater as well. Roof torn off the outside restaurant by the pool deck. Doesn’t look like dunes were breached on the beach. Still hard to tell though.

Outside Portofino right now:

Drove the island a bit yesterday afternoon. Pretty severe flooding along the sound side from the surge. Neighborhoods towards the eastern end of PB getting it bad. One condo complex had been evacuated. Power was shut off once the water got too high. We’re close to high tide right now, so expect it to be much worse this morning.