Naked in Bowen
You don’t have to be naked on the beaches of Bowen, but you can be. Indeed, Bowen has the best-signed nude beach I’ve ever seen. They even write about this […]
Tag Archives: Beaches
Home of the Big Mango
I’ve spent the past two days in Bowen, Australia. When you come to town, you are first greeted by this unusual structure: Yes, that’s exactly what it looks like: a […]
Snorkeling Adventure: Hook Island & Whitehaven
People come to the Whitsundays to sail, to dive, or just to sit on the beach, but I came to snorkel! The islands off of the coast here are surrounded […]
Arriving at Airlie Beach
I’ve traveled to the Whitsundays, an area in northeastern Australia, for my first trip to the Great Barrier Reef! This involves perfect teal water, lots of fish and coral, and […]
Sandsational!
The island of Sentosa has just finished hosting “Sentosa Sandsation,” billed as Southeast Asia’s biggest sand festival. I have no idea what the competition might be for this title — […]
The Lovina Tour
On Saturday, Prescott and I took what our hosts at Lata Lama called “The Lovina Tour”: eight hours of driving, trekking, swimming, soaking, sightseeing, high adrenaline, and serene meditation. We […]
Northern Paradise
When most people go to Bali, they head to the white sand beaches of the south or the central foothills in and around Ubud. But these parts of the island […]
Wet, Wet, Wet
If you’re ever in Hamden, Connecticut, and the temperature starts rising, you might wonder why there’s so much water nearby and nowhere to swim. You can’t swim in Lake Whitney […]
The End of the World
The ancient Greeks believed that the gate to Hades lay in an underground cave beneath Cape Tenaro (also called Cape Matapan), the southernmost tip of mainland Greece. It’s a remote […]
Western Mani Beauty
The Mani, the area in the southwestern finger of the Peloponnese, has traditionally been one of the harshest, driest, most remote areas of Greece. It was one of the only […]
