FRI 10/9
Spooktober at Splash: four Halloween weekends
Splash RV Resort · Milton
Four weekends of trick-or-treating, hayrides, live music, site decorating and costume contests, thirty minutes up the road in Milton.
16-18 · 23-25 · 30-31
High 80° · Water In the lower 80sPeaks 1 Low around 10 AM.The day from 10 AM, the first hour UV reaches 1.
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Temperature and the chance of rain, out to 4 AM.Tide low 3:54 PM, high tomorrow 6:36 AM, low tomorrow 4:20 PMSlack at Pensacola Pass, where the bay meets the Gulf: 7:23 AM and 6:36 PM, when the current stops runningWind 16 mph from the northeast, 4 to 20 through the dayHourly UV, weather and wind from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), baked in when the app last updated. Tide and slack from NOAA Tides & Currents (Pensacola Beach Pier, Pensacola Bay entrance, midchannel). Water and flag read from today's beach forecast.
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Friday, October 9, 2026 through Sunday, October 11, 2026
THU 10/8–FRI 10/9
Draconid Meteor Shower: the one that happens at bedtime
Your own yard, or Big Lagoon State Park for a darker sky · Pensacola
Nearly every meteor shower asks you to be awake at three in the morning.
From dark, best in the first hours
FRI 10/9
Ship to Shore Chat with E/V Nautilus
Alabama Aquarium at Dauphin Island Sea Lab
The Alabama Aquarium at Dauphin Island Sea Lab hosts a live ship-to-shore chat with the crew of the E/V Nautilus for one hour on a Friday morning.
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
FRI 10/9
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Semi-Annual Meeting
UWF Building 10, Room 131 · Pensacola
UWF's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee holds its semi-annual public meeting in Building 10, Room 131, Friday from 1 to 3 PM.
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Fridays
Proof Youth Group
Gulf Breeze Presbyterian Church
Gulf Breeze Presbyterian Church runs its Proof Youth Group on Fridays from 6:30 to 9:05 PM, at the church on Andrew Jackson Trail.
6:30 PM to 9:05 PM
THU 10/8–SUN 10/11
53rd National Shrimp Festival: Gulf Shores
Gulf Shores Public Beach
The Gulf Coast's giant beach festival brings a Children's Activity Village, a sand-sculpture contest, three music stages, and more than 250 vendors.
10 AM-10 PM · Sun 10 AM-5 PM
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