Condor Sailing Adventures offers signature sailboat experiences in beautiful Pensacola Bay. You will breathe refreshing salt air, feel warm breezes, and see beautiful dolphins and picturesque sunsets.
The boat is a unique, rare, 40-foot Condor trimaran that is beautiful! Your experience can be interactive if you want—you are allowed to help raise the sails and otherwise and learn how to sail, or you are free to sit back, relax and enjoy the wide-open water.
Your sailing experience will be truly intimate, for no more than six people can be accommodated on board. This is a perfect adventure for families or other small groups.
Daily Tours and Private Trips
Trips are available seven days a week. If you want more time on the water, Condor Sailing Adventures offers private tours for a half day or full day. Go to www.condorsailingadventures.com to check out Daily Tours or Sunset pages for schedules and rates.
We have all seen the show “Say Yes to the Dress” on TLC. Like every girl, before I was engaged I dreamed about my wedding: the perfect dress that I would wear walking down the perfect aisle, in the perfect church, to marry the perfect groom! I have seen too many episodes of that show to admit but one thing I took from all those women in all those shows—I was not going to be one of those brides that listened to everyone from their cousin to their best friend to the future mother. I did not want to sit in a room with my friends and family clouding my thoughts about what I truly wanted in a dress! Everyone knows that when we go to a movie and watch the previews, suddenly we all become professional movie critics, telling the person next to us which movie is a bomb and which one you can’t wait to see. Well, woman in dress shops suddenly become Tim Gunn from “Project Runway” looking you up and down like you are a complete wreck! Well, no sir. That’s not for me!
So there I was in Puerto Rico—total time engaged less than 24 hours—and I looked at my fiancé and said to him I was going to grab us some drinks. As I walked out of the hotel, lo and behold, across the street was a beautiful bridal shop. I thought, “Oh, what the heck! I’ll just go in for a look.” No harm in that, right?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s finally happening. Yours truly, party planner extraordinaire, is taking the blissful dive into matrimony. You are all probably thinking how easy the planning of such an occasion might be for me, considering that is what I do!
Well, friends, if you think that, you would be wrong. Okay, so yes it is easy for me to know who is going to make my cake and who is going to do my flowers. I have seen lots of work done by the amazing women none other than Shannon Pallin from Fiore and Betty Weber who makes the best cakes in town. Catering, of course, will be taken care of by the masterful chefs here at the Fish House (we’re keeping all of the vendor venues local). Sounds like I have a pretty good plan, right?
Well, that isn’t the half of it. From booking the church to picking the wine and music, it can all get very overwhelming. Not saying it can’t be done, but the last thing a bride wants to worry about on her wedding day is whether the DJ shows (more…)
Here at Great Southern Events, your wish is our command. Anything that screams original or extravagant is our style. Recently, we had an event out on the Deck Bar that might have just topped the originality chart for rehearsal dinners.
I had never heard of a luau rehearsal dinner, but soon found out that it’s a wedding rehearsal dinner, Hawaiian style. And this one pulled out all the stops. When the planning stages of the luau began, intimidation continued to creep up on me. The father of the groom was the coordination king of the luau. Actually, come to think of it, he was more like the coordination drill sergeant for the luau; reminded me of a parent that you can’t “disappoint.” As the planning continued, the magnitude of the event grew and grew. (more…)
Since I last introduced myself, the lessons of this intern have been rolling out at high speed. Again, let me reiterate one of my last principles: “Life isn’t by the book.” Well, this internship certainly doesn’t follow any textbook that I’ve come across. Each day continues to push me and challenge my view of the public relations and marketing field.
Lesson One:The power of a Danish
When you have the governors of both Florida and Alabama on Pensacola Beach at 5 o’clock in the morning, something big must be happening. That something big was a live taping of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” I don’t know about you, but if I had to be awake and ready to talk about our coastal crisis at 5 a.m., I would need more than a venti latte to get me going. Shelley and I figured the best way to showcase the best of Pensacola at the crack of dawn would be to bring a huge box of fresh J’s Bakery Danishes to Joe Scarborough, Mika, and their crew. It’s a Southern tradition to always bring a little gift when invited to visit someone. It always makes the person who invited you glad they did. I learned this lesson from my mother, when we would visit friends and family. I didn’t realize that same lesson was applicable in the business world.
We have all seen the show “Say Yes to the Dress” on TLC. Like every girl, before I was engaged I dreamed about my wedding: the perfect dress that I would wear walking down the perfect aisle, in the perfect church, to marry the perfect groom! I have seen too many episodes of that show to admit but one thing I took from all those women in all those shows—I was not going to be one of those brides that listened to everyone from their cousin to their best friend to the future mother. I did not want to sit in a room with my friends and family clouding my thoughts about what I truly wanted in a dress! Everyone knows that when we go to a movie and watch the previews, suddenly we all become professional movie critics, telling the person next to us which movie is a bomb and which one you can’t wait to see. Well, woman in dress shops suddenly become Tim Gunn from “Project Runway” looking you up and down like you are a complete wreck! Well, no sir. That’s not for me!
Here at Great Southern Events, your wish is our command. Anything that screams original or extravagant is our style. Recently, we had an event out on the Deck Bar that might have just topped the originality chart for rehearsal dinners.
Since I last introduced myself, the lessons of this intern have been rolling out at high speed. Again, let me reiterate one of my last principles: “Life isn’t by the book.” Well, this internship certainly doesn’t follow any textbook that I’ve come across. Each day continues to push me and challenge my view of the public relations and marketing field. 
