Caladesi Island Takes You Back in Time

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
The journey to Caladesi Island begins from Honeymoon Island. The shallow-draft pontoon boat transports passengers from the dock in Honeymoon Island State Park through the calm backwaters to the bay side of Caladesi, thick with mangroves, mullet, diving pelicans and graceful long-necked wading birds. The jovial bantering of the captain [...]

Widow’s meeting

Irsquove working all morning to finish the newsletter which is taking me ages with the help of my friend Damian from Great Liberation Ltd the email marketing company he is one of our sponsors.I will make a move now to Shangarai for the widows meeting. Japhat and Rebecca have invited all of them so we can meet them and have a chat about their lives and their needs.Will let you later how it goes

Kiwi update

For those of you that aren't Facebookers that made me tear up a little here's a link to my Facebook site that even you nonmembers should be able to view. I tend to add pictures more regularly there there are even some New Zealand ones upxoAmanda

keralahoneymoonpackage

Kerala enjoys unique geographic features that have made it one of the most sought after tourist destination s in Asia. An equable climate a long shoreline with serene beaches tranquil stretches of emerald backwaters lush hill stations exotic wildlife waterfalls ayurveda enchanting art forms festivals historic and cultural monuments and an exotic cuisinehellip.all of which offers an uni

The Unbelievable Peak To Peak Gondola.

With the Olympics officially starting on Friday there is a scurry of final preparations going on around Whistler where many of the skiing and all of the sliding events are taking place. Whistler is a huge mountain resort about an hour drive north of Vancouver. Unfortunately I drove the gorgeous stretch of the Sea to Sky highway at night because it is supposed to be an amazingly beautiful drive

VOZ Day Workers Center Portland

I was nervous as I tried to find parking near VOZ. I had called and I knew they were expecting me but still I was concerned that I would just be taking up their time. While waiting for a stop light I saw the first of what would be many instances of a truck pulling up to a corner. This was a corner near the VOZ Worker Center but about 1 block away. The truck slowed but didn't stop. Encouraged

The 11th Hour

After a year and a half of planning We are less than 12 hours away from leaving now. After a few tense moments today we have now been able to check in and confirm out flights are going out tomorrow on schedule. We will keep our fingers crossed that this winter storm does not impact our scheduled flights. We are soooo excited. . . We armed with Signs Flags cow bells and a lot of Red White and

Tattoos

Before we left the States we had decided that we wanted to get tattoos while we were in the Philippines. At first we were thinking that we would all get the same tattoo in the same place. Yesterday 29 we had the opportunity to go to Baguio City for the day and we decided to use our time there to get our planned tattoos. We still didnrsquot know exactly what we wanted but we figured we wou

Lindas wedding

After two months linda will marry with a handsome man but she find some problem about her wedding dress because her body has some fat so some dresses not fit for her and she want to buy wedding dresses. And some friends say the better news about buying discount wedding dress. But she worried about the quality for the dress so first cheap prom dresses after custom wedding dresses. After rec

Santiago our last stop in Chile

OK so Valparaiso failed to live up to our high expectations. Well we went to Santiago with fairly low expectations and were pleasantly surprised. First of all our hostel is gorgeous Los Amazonas on Vicuna McKenna. Around were lots of trees parks and restaurants. We did a Free Tour on our first day meeting in the Plaza de Armas in the historic centre. There were dozens of stunning bui

2009 FEB BRAZIL

Out of the cold of NYC I flew down to the Continent of South America and warm Brazil. It is a huge country with a population of is 187 million people Portuguese is the main language whereas Spanish is spoken nearly all other countries in South America. Rio de Janeiro the former capital city was very hot and the beach was even hotter This is the land of the beautiful people and I fitted r

Tasmania 10 Day Safari Nelson Falls

Fourth DayA visit to yet another waterfall I've been to so many in the travels so far that I have to say I'm frankly quite bored with them. Great big toilet flushes that make me wanna go to the loo and I can safely say that nothing so far on this trip has compared to these Anisakan Falls in Burma Drai Sap Falls in Vietnam and Erawan Falls in Thailand.However Nelson Falls are nice...on the 10

Arriving in Jackson

Hello to all our friends from WyomingWe started the day in a light snow and had a beautiful drive over Teton Pass at 6700 feet. Lovely hotel room. We checked out the elk preserve and drove up into Teton national park where three moose were waiting for us to take a picture. We're waiting for Nancy's sister and her husband to arrive. Then let the party begin

Snow Daze

ENOUGH ALREADY I almost didnrsquot write today. Just didnrsquot feel it. Usually the week is filled with all kinds of things going on but not this week. Thatrsquos not to say that the week was dull. It most certainly was not an uneventful week. There was plenty to do...if you like shovelingWe got snow. Not some snow three fullwindblown blizzards one after the other. They du

Theres an elephant in my bed

As New Years Eve dawned and after having breakfast and collecting our valuables from the locker we went to the meeting point to prepare for our journey to the Khao Sok National Park. We boarded our long tailed boat again and sailed off back to the real world. Once again our trusty little minivan was waiting for us. We loaded our bags onboard and were on our way. After an uneventful journey

Off to florence

So YAY the day is finally here. I am heading to florence tomorrow Ive been trying to get everything together and making sure I have everything. Its a little difficult without my mommy here reminding me of all I need So today I had my irish class and learned how to say a bunch of random words that i can't really remember. We were told that they were going to be on our test though so I'll ha