Black Thunder Resort

... it had been raing about two days before we arrived hopefully the rain will stay away.Hoped to soon for we had some rain and a thunder storm three days after we arrived.The place is looking nice and green with the grass growing like made.We could not set up ...

Scenery got increasingly better as we drove the northern shoreline of Lake Superior to Thunder Bay. We made stops to take in the views. Stopped to visit falls, canyon and walk the longest suspension bridge. Ended the day with sighting of 4 black ...

... and large, heavy raindrops, we caught our train and were back in Vernazza in time for some of the afternoon’s most dramatic thunder and lightning yet. The lightning was so strong that it would take out the power in the town’s shops every now ...

Saturday 27/8/11 150 miles Would you believe it?? Massive thunderstorms overnight.  Woke at 5am to the sound of thunder and heavy rain.  Rescued our washing and boots off the balcony while M slept like a baby. Overnight, it has gone from 36° to ...

... changed and we were beginning to grasp the magnitude of the tropical 'wet' that we had heard so much about - huge pitch black thunder clouds, gigantic forks of lightening and rain like you would not believe ("plops" is perhaps a suitable term here)! And ...

... Lisa and Stace were in a relaxed daze. A very enjoyable experience. The next day the weather was atrocious, the sky was black, thunder rattled and the rain was relentless. Lisa and Stacey were due to go on an elephant trekking excursion but they quickly ...

... at 6:40am, necessitating a 6:00am get-up. The coach took us to Tully Railway Station (also strangely used as the Raging Thunder office), a journey taking around an hour and a half, at which point we grabbed a quick breakfast and hired some reef sandals ...

... Spice Market, as much out of laziness as anything – ½ dozen chicken satay sticks for 22 R and black pepper beef for 42 R. Not bad but once again resort restaurants tend not to be as good as their counterparts on the street – maybe it’s ...

... and there were lots of clouds about that became a storm. We sat up on the hill and watched the lightning show listening to the thunder until about 9.50pm when there was a sudden change as it came over us. The wind picked up and then the rain started (up ...

... through it. We arrive at Tolmer falls and the rain has stopped as we thought it might, but there are still black clouds above and the rumble of thunder ever present. Short walk to the observation deck for the falls and a notice informs us that parts on ...

... street, and the 10-10-10 independence celebration started. We listened to the music for a while then walked back in the pitch black, to our resort, a good 20 minute walk to the north of the town. Later, at midnight, we heard and saw some fireworks set ...

... to stare & giggle. I looked around & found most of the crowd's eyes fixed on me...not the music. I felt like I was stealing the thunder. One of the men, I assumed to be an uncle (don't ask why, he just had that "uncle" look) got a kick out of ...

... laid in a hamoc and read my book, this is definitely the life! I don’t want to leave for mainland tomorrow L There is more thunder coming over from the mainland so looks like we may have some more rain at dinner. 6:00pm – I’m  in my ...

... not very good with accents - guys who seem determined to stay for as long as possible despite the impending showers and thunder and lightning and slippery walk back to the carpark! after a short while taking photos from precarious spots around the pools ...

... , which then developed into the loudest thunder and lightning storm that either of us have ever experienced.  A couple of the thunder claps were right overhead and you could literally feel them through your feet! By dinner time we were both fairly ...

... to the shady tree and the hammocks and chairs, not that we needed shade as it was fairly cloudy as we sat reading and the thunder was in the distance behind us the rain clouds gathered and arrived from the west. We sat under the tree and spoke to Nancy a ...

... and experience has taught us that could mean more than an hour wait. Although there was lightening illuminating the clouds and thunder rolled in the distance, we decided it would be quicker to use our headlamps and hike the cross-island jungle trail yet ...

... stop the sky was getting very dark to the west of the island. Then just as were pulling away we heard the first clap of thunder. As we pulled out from between the two motu, and turned to look in the direction of the storm, we saw a massive waterspout ...

... ferry back to Phuket and we so thankfully to get an ounce of sleep on the rocky boat. Half way however there was a loud thunder and we realised it was storming! Rain poured and we thought "oh great...we leave paradise to arrive in a storm". Thankfully it ...

... We arrived at our membership park in Tijeras (on the Eastern edge of Albuquerque) last Thursday, just in time for three days of thunder, rain, hail, and, in the nearby mountains, snow! Not doing a lot of sightseeing or exploring this time, as we did quite ...

... making it on to the ferry, we were off to Koh Phi Phi. One hour later, we were met by rain, lightening and thunder, not to mention very rough surf. I retired inside where Erin was reading her book and awaited our arrival on the island. We were met ...