RL Sponsors

Having seen the initial success of the Surfline SL collaboration and PADI’s amazing work in SL, we are evaluating a similar partnership with ocean focused Real Life (RL) sponsors, either surfing product, windsurfing product, scuba product, fishing product or general ocean activities product suppliers that would be interested in sponsoring Bishara Resorts, and in return having the dominant product placements within our island group.  Furthermore, the sponsor would be able to place virtual versions of their real life products in Bishara and Second Life in general for showcasing / marketing as well as general purpose testing.  We are casting our lines out wide to find people who could help with high level introductions to companies that may fit this profile, and who would enhance the overall resort environment, look and enjoyment.  If you have anyone who could help sponsor or you believe your own company would be interested, please drop a notecard to VW Sands or Dumisani Ah at your earliest convenience.

Surf-Jam time again!

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Aloha Bishara!

Time once again for Surf-Jam! *NEXT* weekend (sat) we crank up the tunes, wax our boards and rip it up! This Surf-Jam will be contested on a Twin-Pipe set with fluffs and ANY boards! (HG/Seb scipted) Run what ya brung we say in drag racing 🙂

After the comp, LIVE music at Boardies! Bishara Resorts newest club / pool. Come soak in the tub and listen to some live Jam.

As always the Surf-Jam is limited to 20 Vibers so get me an IM in-world or drop me a mail:vwsands@hotmail.com

In-world notices coming your way all week long, heat draws friday night.

Paddle hard,

/V

Gymnastics now at Couture Chapeau!

I was so inspired by the gymnatic events at the Olympics that I redid the display at the store! Come try the five sequence gymnastics animations on an Olympic floor mat!  Don’t forget to bring your friends to take some pics! Going for the gold has never been so easy!

Gymnastics now on at Couture Chapeau

Was so inspired by the Gymnastics at the Olympics that I changed the display! Come on down to try the five sequence poseball animations and don’t forget to take a pic with your friends! Go for the gold!

Congratulations to our fave new married couple !!!

Hey Bisharians, join me in a toast and surf to our own VW Sands and Lissa Pinion who have become hitched today!  Wow, Wimbi Island will never be the same again!  All I can say is this must be one event in SL and RL I regret the most I could not attend.  However I can make a HUGE issue out of it to a point of absolutely embarrassing them 🙂  Hehe, so when you see them you may wish to hand out a huge smootchy kiss and or handshake to them both!  Also I can officially call this Saturday, the 16th of August, Crazy Day, erghmm I mean SandsPinion Day or SP Day or VWissa Day or LVW Day for short. Ok, maybe someone has a better idea for a name?

My best wishes to you both, VW & Lissa!

Olympic fever at Couture Chapeau

The games have begun and Couture Chapeau on Bahati island has created an Olympic display in the store. Pop on down to jump on the run like the wind poseballs and take your photo dashing to the finish line!

Don´t worry, be happy

They grief, we RIDE!

OK, so we had this awesome surf contest on Sunday the 10th of August and despite an attack on the sim by some bonehead, managed to have WAY to much fun again. Nothing like creating new surf junkies of innocent young avatars 🙂

Thanks everyone for coming out to surf and special thanks to “The Crew” for all your hard work.

Next up is the Boneyard this coming weekend for the SLSA 2008 part II opener on Saturday and then a very special day on Wimbi Island on Sunday 🙂

Paddle hard,

/V

Back from vacation and ready to ROCK!

Aloha Bishara!

Back from my much needed vacation and ready to bring you some fun stuff once more!

Let´s get started with the Vibrations Surf Team – hosting an all day Surf Jamboree this SUNDAY from 6 AM slt till we drop!

This is a great chance for NEW riders to soak up some valuable info from some of the best surfers in SL who will be on hand offering FREE lessons, tips and tricks, board testing and advice and info.

Not only that but killer surf tunes all day long, FREE boardies and kinni´s, FREE LM packs with all the hottest surf spots and much more!

Additional info in-world? IM Vibes Captain Buffy Munro, Co-Captain Quench Spotter or Vibes Zookeeper VW Sands 🙂

Join us on Majini Island this weekend!

Want to join our management team?

Hi Bisharians,

We have several things that need done from time to time on the resort that we’re simply not getting to because of the workload we have.  Here are some examples of what we need done, and if you think you can help, please drop either VW Sands or myself a notecard in-world or email me at dumisani AT secondlabs.com:

1. New website – we need a new designed site that has more participation from fellow Bisharians than the current WordPress blog.  Any ideas to achieving this, maybe with a nice Web2.0 app like an open source CMS perhaps?
2. A resident mole – we need a mole in Bish that can go around and help me finish off the general landscaping like edging the pathways I built ages ago, bettering some of the textures and adding foliage where appropriate.  Also our diving spots need to be finished off, though I try from time to time to edge closer to perfection 😉
3. Accountant – We need help!!! We need to check that the rentals and tiers on the resorts are indeed able to carry as much of the resort’s activities as possible. Currently my subsidy to the whole project is huge, more than 75% and it is getting very tough to support continuously without the hope of a break-even point soon.  Please let me have your ideas and assistance to get this working better for us all.
4. Events – I have asked several people and had several volunteer for this in the past, but unsuccessfully. We have had very little regular activity on the resorts, other than VW’s fantastic surfing activities and Lissa Pinion’s wonderful fishing adventures (great comps too).  We have a 6 island resort with no activities other than those two, WOW, I’m stumped at what to do here and hope some of you will have ideas.

Well, that’s just an initial list of things we would love to do in Bish.  Any new ones? Just communicate them through to me or VW or Lissa anytime.

Cheers,

Dumi

Wimbi Island surfing – Are you good enough?

Hey Bisharians!  Ever tried traveling over from Majini to Wimbi lately?  Here’s a suggestion, travel over to the Mangrove beach area and rezz your board to launch from there.  Paddle over to the pipelines and have a surf… but what’s this? You’re bang into the rocks and get blocked?  Hehehe, o yes, this is phase one of the changes at Wimbi Island’s surf layout.  We’re making a surf adventure that is basically more like real life surfing.  Once complete, you will need to watch for various things in the wave run that could affect the way you surf or injure you too.  Wimbi has damage switched on for a reason 🙂

So for now, phase 1, we have only rezzed the blockers so that you can try and learn to develop that essential overview during a surf that you need to not get affected or caught by these natural dangers 🙂  Let us know your experiences – comment right here and lets hear what you wish improved!