Mountain is somewhat of a misnomer for a Florida landscape that is only 345 feet above sea level at its highest point
(northern Walton County), but the first European settlers may have mistaken the Blue Mountain area's towering dunes for
mountains after being at sea for months!
They may also have been impressed by the lush vegetation covering the dunes, especially the spiky shape of the Gulf Coast lupine,
which lives in the dune scrub and exists in only eight coastal counties in Florida's Panhandle. With its fuzzy blue leaves and
purplish blue flowers that look like tiny sweet peas, it is easy to speculate that blue flowers covering tall dunes gave Blue
Mountain its unusual name. |
This is a place you could easily get used to calling your second home. When you’ve soaked up the sun, sit on your balcony awhile and
listen to the surf and the call of seagulls as they drift through the sky. |