Far Far Away
Heron Island, Australia
We went on a trip to New Zealand and Australia a few years back and fell in love with all of it…and it’s all islands out there! Even Australia is a big island! (Size of U.S. big)
The picture above is from our room on an amazing little island called Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef! I’ll be doing a Travel Tale about Australia soon.
A Little Closer
The Caribbean is just around the corner, and the islands there are some of the best anywhere. We loved a place in Jamaica called FDR. It’s the most incredible island resort for families there is! Parents and kids…HAPPY!
The rooms at this place were beautiful and looked out over the sea. Jamaica is just a wonderful place overall. We love it!
Closer Still
You don’t need a passport for this one! It would be fun to see who could guess where this is. But then I couldn’t tell you, and I want to tell you that this place is an easy drive for you if you’re in the US or Canada!
This is Bahia Honda State Park in the Florida Keys! It really looks just like this! It’s wonderful, amazing, and in the US! For those of you going on a road trip…it makes a great destination for camping in a tent or RV.
Just don’t go during a hurricane!
Same bridge!
A Short Boat Ride
This is the image that adorns the desktop on my computer. This is AJ, looking totally too big and strong, wakeboarding behind our boat right around the corner at Cayo Costa State Park. This is an incredible island only accessible by boat. It’s usually pretty well deserted!
And just down the beach a couple of islands south is famous Captiva Island and the Mucky Duck! Here is Jacob thrilled with his success with the “ring-on-a-string-you-gotta-swing-it-onto-a-hook-game”! He’s the champ!
So We’re Hooked
Yup, we’re hooked for sure, just as hooked as that ring on a string. Worse things we could be hooked on I guess! Head over to Hooked On Houses to see what everyone else is hooked on this week!
And, I’m Hooked on Islands at Remodeling Guy too, just a different kind of island. You can eat at either kind, so that’s good.
So, we have many, many islands left to see and we need some help….where should we go? What is your favorite island?
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I’d love to go back to Kauai someday!
We have been to Captiva and it was beautiful!
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Your posts make me a) want to travel sooo much more and b) live in Florida. This one is of course no exception.
There are so many islands I want to visit: Galapagos, Easter, Molokai, Bali…
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Hello from Sicily!
What a fun post
Sicily is an island and worth a visit! It doesn’t have the tropical atmosphere that many islands have but it has a rugged, historical feel that is so much fun to explore. There are more Greek ruins here in Sicily than anywhere else in the world! Many of the towns sit on hills and are absolutely beautiful. Mt. Etna is Sicily’s biggest natural attraction at about 11,000 feet. It’s also Europes tallest active volcano.
We look at the Mediterranean Sea from our patio, where I enjoy my morning coffee.
Sicily is worth the visit!
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Ahhh. Gorgeous! An island vacation sounds pretty wonderful right now. Enjoyed your pics!
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I love the pictures. The wakeboarding picture makes me want to go to the the lake. Last summer, my brother taught me to wakeboard. It’s a lot of fun.
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Thank you. I need a vacation right now, even if it’s the virtual kind
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Happy Friday, Happy Spring, Happy~Happy Everything!
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St. Thomas is one of my favorites, blue everything….Thanks for sharing, wish I was at one of this right now, It is freezing up here!
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We lived in Puerto Rico for 3 years and discovered many islands that were beautiful. I would have to say our favorite is a little known island called Culebra which is small one a few miles off the NE coast. It wasn’t comercialized, had a small village feel (one little motel and a couple of campgrounds) with many local beach house owners. It has some of the most incredible white sand beaches! Flamenco was one of our favorites. The snorkling is amazing!! My one advice would be to take some motion sickness medication before embarking on the ferry.
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Take me with you…seriously! My dream is to lounge in a hammock on an Island and catch up on my reading. Mojito optional!
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An island sounds so lovely right now!
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Aaaahhhh! This looks like it was as relaxing as my trip to the spa!
Happy Spring!
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I love islands too- the “big” island in the Bahamas and Martha’s Vineyard are two of my personal faves.
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Love all your island pics — except for maybe the hurricane one!!
I’m hoping to go to New Zealand one day. Australia too, but NZ appeals to me a bit more
My favourite island (that I’ve visited) is right here in Canada — Prince Edward Island. It’s beautiful, laid back, quiet, relaxing… and the dirt is RED!! My dream home is a cottage in PEI overlooking the water
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All look like wonderful places to visit. The hubby and I never went to the pool at hotels when we would visit places. Now the girls have us going to the water parks.
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Sigh…I want to go to all of them!
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I just got back from 2 weeks in Vieques Puerto Rico. It is a small island 53 square miles in all off the coast of Puerto Rico. You have to go by fery. I went there last year to paint a mural in this ladys home and she invited us back any time. Horses roam the island and there are about 7900 people on it. They have 23 beaches and all of them are diffrent. It is wonderful. I hope to go next year too. Kathy
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Hi Kim,
I loved Captiva & Sanibel too. I visited my aunt there years ago & she took us to a restaurant I think was called the bubble room? & to Ding Darling state park. It was great. Then I went again on my honeymoon. but that has been 15 years now. Time to go again!
AAAHHHHH!!!!!! I grew up in the Keys and have jumped off of that bridge many a times.I have since been back w/my kids and “snorkeled”right off of that very beach…How funny.I found you via Nester.(and…no….we didn’t jump this time….)