Weekend Getaway: Klana Beach Resort, PD

My sister and I headed to Port Dickson and stayed in Klana Beach Resort two weeks ago.  It was actually her idea to get off of city so she invited  my mom and us to go. Since we arrived there in the afternoon, Axel and I went to the beach just to relax and play sand.

 Axel was terribly having fun with sand. 

I think he forgot where he is now. He does not care about water at all.

My rating of this hotel about 7/10. They have 2 types of bedroom which are facing to the yard or sea view. The hotel is on the hill so we have to go down by steps to access to the beach. Since the access is just for hotel guest, we have our own space to lay on the beach for quite sometimes.

Okay we satisfied with the room, the air conditioning was working really good and the important thing we had nice sleep. The breakfast food were nice which they have mix local and western foods.

View from the front door lobby of the hotel

We checked out the hotel after breakfast and visited the ostrich farm just nearby from the hotel.

Some animals like goats were out of cage and this ostrich also has freedom to move where ever he likes

The farm not only has ostriches but they have other animals like horse, camel, rabbits and other pet animal. The fees entrances is RM 15 for adult and children above 3. They also sell food like grass or leaves to feed the animal.

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Fun rides

I always go to the beach in very late afternoon. Around 6 pm. I love that time. I won’t get sun burn and the waves will be awesome when tide is rising. On that day the waves were really good and the water didn’t carry the dried grass like the other day. I love bodyboarding or boogie board. It is great exercise and it's fun activity during summer.

Body board is rectangular, shorter and smaller than a surfboard. Click here to see my body board. It is actually like skating or surfing where you can ride the waves with different maneuvers or style. It can be basic ride, 360, reverse or on the knee ride style. 

Generally I just do basic maneuver. I just lay flat on my belly with my hands holding the board on the front side when riding the waves. So let's see the pictures of me boogie and catching the waves. Robert was the photographer.

The waves breaking behind me and it carried me towards the beach

 I went back to surf for several times

Sometimes the powerful waves dragged me and push my board away.

He said it was like in bikini destination show on tv.

I wish I will be pro like this

The other thing to tell; Those pictures below were taken BEFORE I went for bodyboarding.

A lot of men surfing with the surf board on that day. Robert also was one of the surfers. It look so crowded in the ocean and I couldn't tell where Robert was. They all looked same in the water. After a while I saw Robert carrying his board and the other surfer dude came out of the water. 

 The other surfer dudes

 More surfers

How did they know the waves were so good on that day haha! I've never seen them before. Anyway I really had fun on that day!

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Weekend@thebeach

Spending a whole day at the Emerald Isle beach of Atlantic Ocean on Saturday was the highlight of our weekend. We took 10 things must-have stuff with us. (You can refer this post).We left home around 10 am so that we could park at free parking lot nearby the beach. Fortunately there has one parking space for us. 

Walking along the beach by carrying all those beach gears to find the beach spot was great exercise to us especially our arms. Definitely we looked for the place with no crowd. Once we found it, we located our stuff and dug the hole about 2 ft depth with plastic shovel for a beach umbrella.

 Robert helped me digging the sand

Here it is

We put our stuff on the beach mat. It was really windy and the picture came out little blurry.

Robert went for surfing with his favourite long board

While I just chilled out on beach chair watching people having fun in the water.

The weather was perfect but we had off and on raining in the middle of the day. At least the rain cool off the heat of the beach. We had roast beef sandwiches, cantaloupe and potato chips for lunch when he returned from surfing. We ate while waiting high tide coming in.

Catching waves in high tide mode is really awesome and fun. We went together into the water. I surfed with body board and he just swam beside me. No picture of us in the water. Too much fun!!

But I snapped a picture of him riding the waves after I came back from surfing. The sound of the waves really magnificent.

And few photos around the beach,  

Dipping your feet in the cold water definitely feels so good.

Viewing from the right side of my beach spot

A blonde little girl was having fun on the beach.

A beach patrol was driving along the beach for safety.

We packed our stuff around 5.00 pm and ready to go back home. Finally a picture from us saying goodbye to the beach.

How about your weekend?
Have a good week ahead!

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BodyBoard Fun Ride

Cloudy, mild windy and perfects waves making my day so perfect today at the beach. I have nothing much to say and we have been waiting for high tide.

High tide started coming in around 5.30 pm, the wind blowing hard on my face. This time Robert captured some pictures of me riding the waves. I ran,  dipped my body in the water and kept an eye looking for the big waves. The waves moving up fast and once the approaching wave within 4 ft, I started direct my bodyboard towards to the beach and jumped my body on top of the board and..

 

I was riding on the waves....awesome!!!

Feeling good when the waves was travelling  underneath my bodyboard,

The waves dragged me to the beach and salt water got into my eyes.

Catching the waves wasn't easy part. I still need to learn how to read the waves. Sometimes it getting rough, violents and unpredictable.  One time I chose a wrong one when the force of waves went up quickly, pushing me onwards hardly and rolling me up like a pretzel. Definitely that strong waves separated my bodyboard from my hand grip, bumped my face on the bottom, my neck and my body twisted in the opposite way and my chin slided on the sand  about 5 ft to the beach. I thought it had broken my back. It was like an accident. Robert got some scratches on his face and little cut under his eye from surfboard. I took a break after that incident but Robert still continue surfing.

It such a precious experience to feel the energy and powerful of waves. To whom read this blog, should try once in their life time.

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My new bodyboard/ boogieboard

I guess I was happier this summer than the last summer. I got everything new. Besides getting new bathing suit, new leather flip flop, I bought the new blue, 37" boogieboard from Walmart. I love it. To me it was borned on July 23, '10.

The hard slick on the bottom surface is to resist waterlog from avoiding the bodyboard from becoming heavy. Now my beach gear completed and need to test how good it performs in the water.

And detachable wrist leash to keep board close to body

We decided to go to the beach in the evening because we were expecting big waves when high tide coming in. The wind was blowing strongly when I packed the stuff in the truck and almost blew my surfboard away when I try to snap some pictures. This time I styled my hair pigtail braids.

 

The wind speed was like 15 mph when we reached there and the force of the wind passing over making the particles of sand loosely and hitting our legs when we were walking along the beach to find the good spot. I cannot say it was a bad day but the sandstorm preventing me to take picture of me riding waves on that day. The waves was awesome for a while but then it became wild and violent. We planned to go back there on Monday.

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Fun under the Sun

Now it is the beginning of my first day of this year to step on the sand land. I  wore new bathsuit today and we drove off to the Emerald Isle of Atlantic beach on Sunday Morning. We stopped  and unpacked the stuff from the truck at this sign board.

And walked through this wood bridge which access to the beach

We located our stuff closer to the water because low tide will be at 2 pm. The weather was so nice, breezy, the soft white sand and the sound of waves was magnificent. Robert can't wait to go for surfing and he set up the umbrella and everything quickly and rushed to the water.

 I was just chilling on the beach chair taking some pictures and looking at the blue ocean.

When he came back from surfing, he invited me to go into water together, looking for the good waves coming and surf with boogieboard. Catching the good waves and riding on it making my feeling so wonderful. Once the waves pushing you off to the beach made me want to ride it again. I got up and wading in the water while carrying my board. It's totally body workout today especially my legs. I feel the burning of my muscles when running against the waves.

We spent about an hour in the water and we stopped to have some lunch.  We enjoyed some bagel pizzas, juice and water while seeing people walking by and doing things at the beach. Some people walking with their dogs and the sound of barking sometimes annoying us when they let their dogs keep barking to the other dogs.

Playing frisbee on the beach was the other exciting part. Catching the coming disc while running through in the water deep to the ankle making us embrace the  wind breeze and the sand. We played close to the water and it's deep enough to make a great splashes and cool our feet. We jump to catch and doing few techniques to throw the disc. Seriously we had a great exercise. 

The heat of the weather obvioiusly made us dehydrated. We stopped plalying and get back to our spot to refresh ourselves.  The water level start rising around 5 pm and that is the signal of high tide. We decided to pack our things when the water reaching our spot and we went home happily.

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