Posts Tagged ‘beach’
Thousand Islands? Surely everyone knows the name of the Thousand Islands Tourism is not far from the capital. Tour the Thousand Islands, not just swimming at the beach, snorkeling or diving (diving). One of the thousand islands tourism activities we can do is fishing. This fishing can be just ‘killing time’ or to kill time and drive a sense of boredom, or both to deliver a hobby. Read the rest of this entry »
San Diego is offered up as a great destination for people looking to take a vacation on the beach. Here are some recommendations on San Diego beaches from a local.
San Diego Beaches
When people think of San Diego, they inevitably imagine year around sun and beautiful beaches. Ironically, the worst time to visit San Diego is from the middle of May through the middle of June. During this time period, the coast is socked with low clouds and the sun breaks through for no more than a couple of hours a day. In fact, we call the annual process by the name of June Gloom. Read the rest of this entry »
The sky broke open before dawn.
The rain teeming down from the heavens was splattered horizontal by fierce winds. I could hear the surf pounding as if to destroy our inn’s beach walls – terrifying.
This is Belitung, where the rain never comes gently. “I’ve never seen it rain harder than it does in Belitung,” says Andrea Hirata in his novel Laskar Pelangi. The sailors in these parts refer to these powerful wind and rain storms as “squalls” – a natural phenomenon that they fear.
But in the morning, the sky was clear. My friends and I walked down to the harbor to head over to Lengkuas Island. We walked Read the rest of this entry »