Beach Bar Pic of the Week – Bomba Shack, Tortola, British Virgin Island
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The Bomba Shack, a beach bar located on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, might not be the most appropriate as its future is in doubt. Destroyed in Hurricane Irma, the world famous beach bar, which regularly showed up on “best beach bar” lists, has been told it needs to relocate by the current land owners. Where Bomba Shack ultimately ends up probably won’t be decided anytime soon. If it ever comes back is the...
Bomba Shack Rebuild Updates Needed
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The Bomba Shack, a beach bar located on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, was destroyed in Hurricane Irma. Since then, the world-renown tourist destination and BVI landmark has been locked in a court battle with the landowners and has not been rebuilt. Google, the official notifier of all things, lists it as “permanently closed.” Social media is typically the place to find the latest updates but the Bomba Shack itself...
Beach Bars in HDR – Bomba Shack, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
Tagged: beach bar, bomba shack, british virgin islands, bvi, hdr, photography, tortola, travel
I’ve been scouring the internet for a decent image of the Bomba Shack beach bar on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands that I could convert into an HDR image. Finding them was one thing – finding one with a “Creative Commons” license that allowed them to be adapted was another. Luckily, Flickr came through for me again and this image of the Bomba Shack, courtesy of Huw Pritchard, fit the bill perfectly. The...
Photo of the Day: Bomba Shack, Tortola, BVI
Tagged: beach bar, bomba shack, british virgin islands, bvi, caribbean, tortola, travel
The Bomba Shack beach bar on Tortola looks like it was cobbled together by whatever pieces of driftwood the owners could find, decorated with whatever was laying about and then painted every color of the rainbow. It’s probably the reason so many photos of it exist online – you won’t find anything else like it. One perspective, though, that is difficult to find is the view from the Caribbean. I was pleasantly...
