Long Beach Lodge

I know, I'm from Oregon so it's not a distant trip. But for this my gal came from China, her first trip out of the country, and I spent a month showing her all the best things to see in the state I grew up in, love, and until a few months ago - lived my ...

... duration of our 23 days in Phucket. Its atmosphere was more exciting and cosmopolitan than elsewhere. The first weeks stay at the Patong Beach Lodge was not extendable so we found a better home in the Amata Resort until we left. This was only 2 ...

Back over on long beach which is as spectacular as i remember. Stunning beaches with rainforest , freshwater lakes and fjords. And the best rockpooling Ive ever seen. Today we found 49 starfish on one rock. The heatwave here is so intense even the sea ...

... I hung out with many fun Scandinavians over the week)) and the great crew at Sunlight Divers on the north end of Long Beach. Sunlight is a friendly, fun and young team with a professional approach to teaching and leading diving trips in the area and ...

... ride to the island and again we had the staff sing us a welcome Bula song (this time with a guitar) and that was lovely. I liked Long Beach instantly. As its name suggests, the beach is quite long and at low tide fairly wide, which is nice. At high tide ...

... a house with beautiful homey decorations and well kept rooms, the deck was a sight to behold -- it overlooked the Indian Ocean and the beach we would be spending a majority of our time at. After a much needed nap, we found our way through the maze of the ...

... there is a small airport in nearest town of Inhambane with twice weekly flights to Joburg. Sort of booked flights through Barra Lodge leaving Monday 13 October. No tickets or confirmation number but credit card details given. Cost 3600 rand for both (180 ...

... room, with a great view, and a small balcony! We feel like queens. We are right across the street from the beach. We went for a long walk down the boardwalk and beach and enjoyed the night air and people watching. Nothing too crazy about today...it was ...

... .  We join the sport watching while having lunch at the Port of Call near the pier in Gold Beach.  Just lounging around the Tu Tu Tun Lodge.  The relaxing environment by the river just invites relaxation.  After 1:30 every day, there ...

... 's not as bad, but the cough and fever are.) So, we changed our plans. We were originally going to spend today exploring Cannon Beach and Seaside, with me going out to the tide pools.  Then tomorrow we'd go down to Yachats, going by Heceta Head and ...

... in Airlie Beach on 28th Dec. Had a couple of nights here before getting the boat over to Long Island, Whitsunday Islands. Long Island's beach isn't that great in that it has a lot of stones, but the resort was lovely and still at a nice budget price! We ...

... down those hills, but we finally found a Steers to stop at for a burger before heading back to the coast to start the long stretch of beach towns that mark the beginning of Kwazulu-Natal coast, just south of Druban. We took a break at Shelly Beach for 2 ...

... spotted with residences barely visible through the canopy. Set on 50 acres of this rainforest on top of a hill with the main lodge overlooking the beach and ocean far below, Sanctuary is a very special place. We had booked a mesh-walled hut set on ...

... 2 hour journey and arrived at 1pm, met by the hostel bus as it was a 10 min trip down the road to Mission Beach Backpackers Lodge. Had to close the windows on the way there as there was a dead pig on the road which apparently stank...nice! The choice ...

... at the pictures and video. They are an endangered species and only about 1000 remain in Australia but there are about 40 around Mission Beach. They are highly territorial so only 1 pair will be in an area at any given time. Barbara and Stu (which we ...

... regardless. I really believe Colin was silently surged at having completely cocked up a backpackers day. Anyway before we reached Airlie Beach we discovered from his things that the bloke was headed there too, so we got his stuff together and Rene and ...

... this term is, or indeed how accurate, but I like it.  Either way, an enjoyable pitstop. Our main destination was Kande Beach – a popular budget campsite sitting pretty much on the halfway point of the West coast.  En route to Kande we hit ...

... I could park here as I was going to meet a buddy at Dockside..and he was like yes of course, no problem. The Waterway lodge was a nice place and very convenient location, staff was really nice and helpful, rooms were clean and AC had room like an ...

... to do it on! I fell apart a bit on the back 9.. but oh well it was inevitable. We finished off with a few drinks in the Stillwater Bar at the Lodge.. and that capped off one of the most fun and memorable days of my life. Was worth every single dollar. ...

... ; Around the corner was the campsite, which was outfitted with men's & women's portapotties, a picnic table, and about 40,000 no-see-ums.  We made a fire to keep away the bugs & drank a bottle of wine to celebrate our last night on the ...

... parrot, along with monkeys, sloths and iguanas. We spent the night drinking beer, playing cards and looking at the stars around a beach bonfire. (friday) Suppose to go on an early morning trek, but it was raining heavily so we got to sleep in ...