Sea Mist Resort

... 's van. After exploring the town we had a pleasant lunch at Cap'n Jacks and later farewell drinks on board with Dave and Kristie from Sea Mist.  They are leaving their boat here and returning to the US for a couple of weeks.  It has been fun ...

... , past streams of trucks going slow to preserve their brakes. Unfortunately as we approached the coast our sunny day was overtaken by a low hanging sea mist, we did however pop out at the coast and onto what was to be 230 more km of some of the most ...

... marley memorabilia, and a certain popular plant offered to you before you cross the threshold; then there's Rai Leh West, the richer resort area with the gorgeous beach; and lastly there's Ton Sai, the climbers' hangout (boom boom..) with plenty of cheap ...

... only one out of 1000 turtles will actually survive. The day ended with a fantastic diner with the couple from California at their resort. Since it was their honeymoon, I felt the need to share with them my black market Bintangs.  Before coming to ...

... as we come out of the mountain mist , passing through a really pretty village, Purmamarca. There are a number of good looking resort style hotels here. The mountain backdrop is of coloured hills.....looks great. Into Salta, it's a taxi to the hotel and a ...

... down the hill, and around the coast toward Baku. Lots of third world brick-walled empty compounds, some beachfront resort development, and a massive shipyard building a production platform, lying on its side. Other rigs moored to wharfs, and ...

... it had apparently been developed by the local hydroelectric company as a company town for its workers and then re-invented as a resort destination.  The reason I mention this town is that there were hundreds of wallabies grazing on the lawns in the ...

... off and walk every time there is the slightest incline.  After our cycle tour it is back onto the boat.  We arrive at our resort in time for lunch.  We’re on a small, secluded area of Cat Ba island that’s not accessible from the ...

... ) that evening when we were joined by a colleague of Adie’s.  We sat outside at the restaurant as the mist rolled in off the sea and the rain prepared for what proved to be an overnight deluge! The Legacy was possibly the ‘legacy’ ...

... towns.   We mixed with Surf Dudes on the beaches and Monty made lots of new friends.  Early on there was a heavy sea mist, quite unlike any thing we had seen before, except in odd scenes from Jaws, but later the sun burned off the mist and ...

... were up before 8.30 and walked down the 130 wooden steps to the beach. The beach is beautiful but was once again shrouded in sea mist. It is so clean, only sand dollar and razor clam shells plus the odd seagull feather on the miles of sand although even ...

... windy 109 highway and ended in Moclips at about 4.30 and our first view of the glorious beach was obscured by either marine layer, sea mist or just plain old fog so it was difficult to appreciate our vantage point.  Our accommodation was on  a ...

... .  Their place had a direct view to the haystack rock in the blue-green ocean and the long black-sand beaches with a lazy sea mist hovering along the beach grass.  Mmmmmm....  Just what we needed after the hustle and bustle of our time in ...

... we had excellent views of the island, and Mt Lidgbird, and around to the south east for Ball’s Pyramid, very ghostly in the sea mist. Above here was probably the steepest part of the climb, the “get up”, with wet, sloping sections of ...

We were away from the dock at Bluff House Resort and Marina at 0700.  Sea Mist was close behind us out of the buoyed channel.  We set off for the "Whale Channel,"  it was quite windy and rolly so we put up the main sail to steady the ...

... to Pisco on the coast, where we stopped to get a boat out to the Ballestas Islands, sometimes called the poor man’s Galapagos, but a heavy sea mist had closed the port. We all decided to take an early lunch to see if the mist would lift. We had some ...

... and see if we liked the conditions we encountered, if we didn't we could come back.  We had more than eaten out dock fees in overpriced dinners and were ready to be going again - Sea Mist was coming with us, Jingles would wait to see how we got ...

... walk along the beach. Fairly commercialised  with high rise blocks all along the lengthy beach though quite atmospheric with the sea mist making the buildings disappear and watching the surfers and waves. Next we drove on to Coffs Harbour which is ...

... the desert, although here the action of the cold Humboldt current on the warm Pacific waters means that every morning there is sea mist which allows some scrubby vegetation to eke out an existence (so the drizzle when we arrived was actually mist!) A 1km ...

... tour of this area which was alright apart from the weather.  Apparently, this is a regular occurrence in this area  - the sea mist.  We had lunch at a little restaurant overlooking the sea with its high rollers (I mean the waves, not the ...