Moontide Guest House

It's a rare pleasure for us to stay somewhere on holiday and to experience it over a period of days. And Moontide was a palpable hit with all five of us. Its position is hard to beat, right on the banks of the lagoon, its wooden decks shaded by a 400-year-old milkwood tree. Here you can sit out for bountiful breakfasts or with an evening drink from your bar fridge, and watch giant kingfishers diving for fish - well, we saw one anyway. Bird life is profuse on the lagoon. The long, white-sanded Wilderness beach is only a one-minute walk from the house, but you can also take a canoe straight from Moontide up the lagoon into the Touw River and then walk along forest trails to waterfalls to swim in fresh-water rock pools. Whatever we did it was a pleasure to return, play cards in a relaxed sitting room, or read in the cool of our bedrooms. I was delighted with 'Milkwood' because I'm a sucker for dozing on a futon, in a loft, under thatched leaves, with river views by my head. But I would like to return and try them all. Since we descended en masse, Maureen has built herself a tree-top sanctuary. The deck, day-bed, even the free-standing bath, look out across thatched roofs to the river. Sporingly, she's decided it's too nice to keep for herself!