Moon Spotlight Pensacola ― Including Fort Walton Beach & Alabama Gulf Shores

Moon Spotlight Pensacola is a 90-page compact guide covering this picture-perfect beach retreat. Author Joshua Kinser offers his seasoned advice on must-see attractions, and includes maps with sightseeing highlights so you can make the most of your time. This lightweight guide is packed with recommendations on sights, entertainment, shopping, recreation, accommodations, food, and transportation, as well as easy-to-read maps, making navigating this laid-back, cultural paradise uncomplicated and enjoyable.

This Spotlight guidebook is excerpted from Moon Florida Gulf Coast.

Joshua Lawrence Kinser is a native Floridian from Pensacola who spends the better part of each year traveling the entire length of the state’s Gulf Coast. After bouncing between jobs for more than a decade?traveling around the world as a writer, a wildlife biology research technician, and a professional drummer on cruise ships?he returned to Florida to write full-time.

Joshua honed his writing skills working as a staff writer for The Pensacola News Journal and publishing articles for magazines such as SAIL and Times of the Islands. As a wildlife biology tech, he has worked in Florida, Hawai?i Volcanoes National Park, Glacier National Park in Montana, and in the forests surrounding Yosemite National Park in California. He is passionate about the outdoors and is always searching for the best freshwater springs, hiking trails, campsites, and fishing spots along the Florida Gulf Coast.

When he isn’t writing guidebooks, Joshua is busy writing fiction and nonfiction. He currently splits his time between Black Mountain, North Carolina, and Gulf Breeze, Florida.