Beach Bungalow

Dog-friendly oceanfront vacation rental villas in Indialantic / Melbourne Beach, Florida

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Big Ds Life Journey Led Him to the Beach Bungalow!!

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We’re Very Happy to have Hosted “D”, Vinny’s big brother & his family – Sam, Melissa, Beka & Abby recently at the Beach Bungalow.

Here’s a bit about D & photos too during their visit here!

A little about D:

“D is our gentle giant. He loves to play catch and spend time with his people. He came to us when a family member passed away unexpectedly and he keeps us very busy with his desire to play almost non-stop! He is a good boy with a big heart and has managed to teach us there is great joy in the little things. Coming to the Beach Bungalow means a car ride so he’s all in! ????“

Neptune Memorial Reef

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Out in the Atlantic about 3 miles east of Key Biscayne and about 40′ down is the Neptune Memorial Reef. It was just sand, but now it’s a replica of Atlantis and an option for what to do with those pesky ashes after cremation.
Right now it’s 16 acres, but there are plans for more boulevards and structures.

It looks like a great dive spot that is already creating a lot of life “out of the ashes” in way of coral and fishes.
How cool is that?

http://www.nmreef.com/reef-gallery.html

Float those pains away :)

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Image: Souler Float

Imagine an hour with no sensory input.  None.  No sound.  No light.  No smell.  No touch.  

You’re floating in 10” of body temperature water loaded with 1000 lbs of epsom salts.  Your body is weightless and your mind has no distraction.
 
That’s the “new” world of isolation pods.  They used to be called sensory deprivation chambers, but that was back when they looked like something out of a B rated Frankenstein movie.  Hmm.  Was there ever an A rated Frankenstein movie?  
And the whole “deprivation” concept wasn’t very attractive sounding.  Who wants to be deprived?  
 
Things have changed though and now the pods are way cool futuristic things with lots of room and piped in music and soft lighting to get you in the mood.
Then the lights go off and the music stops and there is nothing while you’re floating on body temperature water that has 10 times the salinity of the Great Salt Lake!  
 
Your body starts to relax muscles it never knew it was holding.  You might even fall sound asleep, but most often you won’t because our bodies have a sort of “sensoristat” and having no sensory input kind of puts it on alert.  
So you lie there with nothing to feel, hear, or see.  Eventually the brain waves start to slow down and you find yourself in a very calm and meditative state somewhere between awake and asleep.  You get in the “zone”.
The next thing you know the music starts back up to let you know that your hour long float is coming to an end.  It always takes me by surprise.  What?  That was already an hour?  It can’t be, but it is.  
When you get out you’re sort of still floating on a cloud and that feeling stays with you.  And your body feels loose and supple.  If you have pain, it’s far less or has gone away entirely.  
If you have worries, they seem less urgent and more easily handled.  
 
It’s said that the experience of floating like this can get your mind to those calm places that yogis spend a lifetime of meditation to achieve.  The elusive Theta brain wave state that is the source of enlightenment, or at the very least the source of a very calming and energizing state of being.  For many people it’s the most relaxing thing they’ve ever done.  For others it’s the only way to relieve the chronic pain.  
 
Here on the Space Coast we are extremely fortunate to have a float center called Souler Float   It’s the sort of resource you might expect to find in the hipper big cities like San Francisco or Seattle or even Orlando, but here it is in our backyard.  Lucky us!
And lucky us that the folks at Souler Float are friends of the Bungalow and offer our guests a special discount to give floating a try.  
So if you have any chronic pains or could use a respite from the ever present bombardment of present day life on this planet, check out their website and let us know that you’d like to schedule a float while you’re here at the beach.  You may just find a great new way to totally relax, other than lounging on the beach in front of the Bungalow.
That’s pretty relaxing too.  đź™‚
See you at the beach!
Rob

Labor Day on the beach :)

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The section of beach along Indialantic, Melbourne Beach, and on down to Sebastian Inlet  is heaven on earth at this time of year.  Air temps in the low to mid 80s.  And the water is about 80 too.  Perfect.

What a great place it was to land after that long trip on planes, buses, taxis, trucks, through Mexico, but starting up in Port Townsend, WA.  2+ weeks of bouncing through mexican farm districts.

The trip through Sonora and Sinaloa was great.  Farmers are easy to be around the world over and Mexico is no different, maybe better in a way.  Family means so much in Mexico, and friends of family are nearly the same in the deep and meaningful connection the Mexicans I know take for granted.  It’s a very comfortable world.

It was nice to land back on this beach though.  On Labor Day I was lounging around in the warm Gulf Stream water, catching waves on a hot new Toobs Joker bodyboard, watching a biplane give us all a half hour air show of flips and turns with smoke trails right over our heads.  Great show for folks on the beach.  Amazing show for those of us sitting right under him in the break zone offshore.  Cool beach.

I pretty much had the waves to myself, which is a great part of this break.  All beach break.  Spread out and catch a wave.  No need to hustle or snake or milk a wave and that brings what’s really going on out there back home.  Just playing in warm ocean surf.

I love this beach.

Rob

Get me to the beach!

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I’ve been in dry, dusty, mountainous Mexico for weeks and I’m ready for the beach!

It’s pretty cool here though and I read Born to Run about barefoot running and the Tarahumara Indians just south of here in the Copper Canyons which is some of the most remote wilderness in the world.  80 year old guys can run 100 miles non-stop!  A fellow called Caballo Blanco has organized an annual race in the canyon that draws the best ultra marathoners in the world and ALL the prizes and money goes to the indians.

There were over 80 internationals and 300 indians in the race this year.

So I’ve been running and thinking about doing the race next year.

Still, it an’t the beach and I can’t wait to get back to that warn Gulf Stream water!

See you at the beach!

Bungalow Dogs – Peso

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Peso was the first Bungalow dog, well before the Bungalow turned into a beach house for everyone else.  She had an overbite that kept the tip of her tongue sticking out and she was the runt of the litter which made her even more nuts about food than the standard unhinged beagle.  Not just food either.  Boxes of Sudafeds out of my mother’s purse, lit cigarette butts on the street, a quarter pound of chocolate covered espresso beans at our Christmas party.  Any food within reach was always and forever fair game in her eyes. She got in the food bin once and nearly exploded!  We always needed a bottle of hydrogen peroxide around because you never knew when she’d eat something that needed to come back up in a hurry, like those espresso beans.

Still, she was one seriously adorable dog and everyone on the beach knew Peso.

When we redesigned the villas at the Bungalow, we definitely did it with dogs and their owners in mind because it’s not easy to find a nice place on the beach that not only allows dogs, but actually caters to them.  Now at least there’s one place that we know of that does.  🙂

See you at the beach!