MARY ESTHER — The general public's ability to visit the more than half dozen spoil islands in the Okaloosa County part of the Santa Rosa Sound needs to be protected, District 4 County Commissioner Trey Goodwin said recently. Meanwhile, a local businessman who earns his living by taking visitors to some of the islands and providing them with various kinds of water sports fun says local officials should continue to allow him to do so. "Those islands were made for commerce," said the businessman, Kevin O'Neal, who owns Destiny Water Adventures based at a marina on U...
