California travel expert Veronica Hill of tours the Elephant Seal Rookery at Piedras Blancas in this episode of "California Travel Tips." Located just 9 miles north of San Simeon, this is the best place to view elephant seals in California. Join Veronica Hill of California Travel Tips at this amazing vista point and learn more about these giant pinnipeds. Located on

"CHILD FRIENDLY" KAWELA BAY is a beautiful and secluded well known secret bay where locals go to get away from the tourist crowds. This is a 30-60 min walk along the coast from Turtle Bay Resort. If you take your time and stop here and there and take pictures it will take you a little longer to reach the secluded Kawela Bay. You will pass several secluded beaches where I have seen Hawaiian Monk Se

Here is a video I took from the southern end of Patong Beach Phuket, as you can see I shot this video during low tide, I am right on the bridge that leads up to the Amari Coral Beach resort. My goal is to get video of the beach from different locations that way I can get you the true beauty of this beach. Patong Beach is probably one of the busiest beaches in Phuket and during

One of our favorite activities is going to Kamala Beach, this is one of the better beaches in Phuket, if you enjoy just hanging out on the beach or just watching some great sunsets you won't be disappointed. You can find some excellent dining locations in Kamala, some of the best seaside restaurants can be found right here. Kamala Beach is an excellent location for a romantic

http This is just an overview of my Bang Tao Beach Phuket Swim route, I am located on the North end of Bang Tao and if you see the beach section in the video that is Bang Tao beach. This is just gives the big picture of my swim route. Today is a good day for a swim, the swell and currents are not that bad, so it should be a good swim. Like I mentioned in my other Bang Tao vide

http If you like Thai spring rolls and want to know how to make some for your family and friends at home, you will become an expert after this course. They are a lot of fun to make and the ingredients are very simple, you can buy almost all of your Thai spring roll filing at the market. Once I got home I experimented on several different ingredients, I get my spring roll wraps

http I like to keep my Phuket beach videos current so the other day early in the morning I went up to Patong beach to get some video from north, south and center Patong beach. Patong beach is probably one of the busiest beaches in Phuket, especially later on during the day when the tourist and Jet Ski's start arriving. About once a week I will come up to Patong beach and run t

http Here is a video tour of the breakfast buffet at Malina's restaurant that is located within the Aspasia Phuket where I live. About once or twice a week we enjoy having breakfast at Malina's, the breakfast buffet is awesome and of course it's all you can eat, I especially enjoy going to the buffet after one of my very early morning distance swims at Kata beach. The buffet h

http I love Starbucks coffee and was very happy they built one right in Kata Beach Phuket where I live, for awhile the only Starbucks shop was located in Patong beach and the festival plaza. Now there is another coffee chain here, Andaman coffee that is very similar to Starbucks, but does not quite have the same touch. The coffee products are all set in western prices, so it's

http patongdining.com http The Accenta Phuket is a resort right next to the Aspasia Phuket, they started building this resort in 2006, Rudi Meyer (who also was the developer for the Aspasia Phuket) really did a great job in this development, Rudi sold almost all the units before it was completed just to give you an idea how nice this place really is. Here is a video of the poo