The JournalStories from the lodge and the coast
Recipes, field notes, guest letters, and reflections from the team. Updated whenever we have something worth saying.
Field Notes
A slow blog, written by hand
No clickbait, no SEO formulas. Just whatever the team is thinking about that month — what the gardeners are growing, what the kitchen is cooking, what the season feels like, sometimes a longer essay from a guest.
field notes
Notes from the kitchen garden, July
July is the cool quiet month on the coast — short days, long mornings, and a garden quietly catching up after the rains.
field notes
Why we paddle the creek at dawn
Five-thirty in the morning, the creek glassy, the mangroves starting to stir. The case for joining a dawn paddle even if you would rather not.
long read
A letter from our long-stay guests
A short letter from a couple of long-stay guests, written on their last morning at the lodge. Edited gently for length.