Santa Rosa Sound is the inter-coastal water way on the Northwest Florida Gulf coast, approximately 50 miles long and ranging from about 1/2 to 1 mile wide, that connects Pensacola Bay on the west end and Choctawhatchee Bay on the east end. It separates the mainland on the right from Santa Rosa Island on the left. In most places the island is barely 1/2 mile wide and separates the mainland and the sound from the Gulf of Mexico.
This is the same body of water that that Louisiana National Guard helicopter crashed in to last week, taking the lives of 4 soldiers and 7 Marines, although the site of the impact was about 10 miles further to the west from my vantage point on this bridge.
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