Cape San Blas dune
— a white dune the gulf keeps moving.
Not only on a wall.
Cape San Blas dune, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A long, low cape of bright quartz sand on Florida's Forgotten Coast, separating St. Joseph Bay from the open Gulf. The dunes here are uncommonly tall for the eastern Gulf, held in place by sea oats and bitter panicum and not much else. Hurricane Michael cut through the cape in 2018 and the sand has been rebuilding ever since. Loggerhead turtles still nest along the gulf side every summer.
The place, in three passes.
Cape San Blas is a narrow sand cape extending southwest from the Florida Panhandle's Gulf County, separating St. Joseph Bay from the open Gulf of Mexico. The cape and its northern peninsula sit between Apalachicola and Port St. Joe along a stretch of about 30 miles known as the Forgotten Coast. T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park occupies the northern nine miles of the peninsula. The quartz sand is unusually white and fine, washed south from the Appalachian Mountains and sorted by Gulf currents over many millennia.
The cape's seasons run by water and wind rather than by leaf. Loggerhead and green sea turtles nest along the gulf side from May through October; park rangers stake and monitor every nest. Sea oats flower in late summer and hold the dune line through winter storms. White-tailed deer come out at dusk on the bay side. Late October brings the cleanest light and the lowest humidity of the year; June through September brings warm Gulf water above 28 degrees Celsius and the regular chance of an afternoon thunderhead off the bay.
T.H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park entry runs $6 per vehicle as of 2025. The park has 119 campsites, eight cabins, and trail access to a designated wilderness preserve at the north tip. Cape San Blas proper, south of the park, is a mix of private homes, short-term rentals, and the unincorporated community of the same name. Hurricane Michael made landfall as a Category 5 storm on 10 October 2018 just east of the cape, cut a temporary inlet through it, and destroyed much of the dune line; rebuilding and beach renourishment have been ongoing since.
