Winters on Mississippi Gulf Coast

I guess it all depends on what you like to do outside during the winter. These are my priorities: 1) Paddling my canoe. In the Florida Panhandle and south Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, there are hundreds of fantastic paddling opportunities and they are best explored in the cooler months. We paddle three to four days a week are ok with 50 degrees 2)Hiking: Ditto the above. 3)Exploring back roads and little towns and communities. Ditto the above. There is also bike riding, scuba diving, fishing (salt water and fresh) and boat riding on the estuaries and bays. I lived in South Florida for years and the year-round bugs and humidity was a real downer for our kind of outdoor life. To each his own. lizzie