St. Andrews State Park Campground Camp Store has beach bike rentals. You can also ride on the 2-mile-long paved bike trail through the park, which runs through loops and parks. It is a wonderful way to see deer as well as other park wildlife. There are two easy, short hiking trails in the Park that allow walkers to get a closer look at coastal scrub habitats as well as native pine forests.


The Park is located along miles and miles of sugar-sand coastline which has been consistently rated America's most beautiful beach. St. Andrews State Park spans 1200 acres. It offers boating, camping and swimming as well as watersports and fishing. You can also hike and bird/wildlife watch. Shell Island Water Taxi can be found at 1101 Bayview Avenue Panama City, FL 322401. This is the official water transport service for one of Panama City Beach's top attractions, Shell Island.

Shell Island Water Taxi 2023

Shell Island Water Taxi 2023


Snorkeling is good around the St. Andrews State Park jetty, and excellent out on Shell Island. Habitats range from sand bottom, to shallow grass flats, to the rocky faces of the jetties. Expect to see tropical fish, crabs, rays, and if you are lucky, a sea turtle or some of the resident bottlenose dolphins.

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Shell Island Water Taxi. We are grateful that you visited us at Shell Island Water Taxi. We are delighted that our clients enjoyed the Humpback Whales Tour in our Shell Island Cruise. "Great Shell Island Dolphin To...

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Shell Island is unspoiled and pristine. You can enjoy the beauty of Florida's old Florida while you are there. Enjoy the natural environment of an island in its entirety by taking a Shell Island Water Taxi.

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Shell Island allows you to experience old Florida before the rise of tourism. It has become overcrowded. We love our tourists. Shell Island offers an entirely different experience to Panama City Beach. You have to go there though to truly experience it.

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Can you kayak from St. Andrews State Park to Shell Island


We pick you up at the State Park Docks and drop you off about 2.2 miles down the Island. It will take approximately fifteen minutes to reach our dock.

Frequently Asked Questions

Shell Island is an undeveloped barrier island between St. Andrew Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The area stretching out for 7 miles with no hotels, no restaurants, no food stalls, no trash cans, no picnic tables, no buildings. It's natural beauty for as far as you can see.

Mochras (commonly known as Shell Island), is a peninsula lying west of Llanbedr in Gwynedd, Wales. It was formed after the River Artro was diverted by the Earl of Winchelsey in 1819 from its previous course where it entered the sea to the south of Mochras.
 

Shell Island has a fascinating amount of local wildlife including dolphins, loggerhead turtles, green sea turtles, ghost crabs, beach mice, nine-banded armadillos, alligators that live in the lake on the island, marsh rabbits, racoons and more

Shell Island can only be accessed by boat, and the Shell Island Water Taxi is the easiest, safest, and quickest way for visitors to reach Shell Island.