Before Salty’s became a kitesurf village, before the beach dinners, the music, the long stays, the friendships, and the community that now fills these spaces, this was simply a house.
A family home standing quietly on Bofa Beach for more than sixty years.
The kind of house built slowly and honestly. Coral stone walls shaped by hand. Wooden shutters weathered by salt air. Wide open spaces designed to let the ocean breeze move freely through every room. Long before tourism reached this coastline in the way it has today, this house was already here listening to the tides change.
When we first stepped into it, the house had been abandoned for decades.
The easier choice would have been demolition. Start over. Build something polished, modern, predictable.
But this house already carried too much history to erase.
The cracks in the walls.
The creaking wooden floors.
The uneven textures.
The vines curling themselves around the beams.
The way the trees had slowly reclaimed parts of the pathways.
None of it felt broken.
It felt alive.
So instead of fighting nature, we decided to build alongside it.
Local artisans helped bring the space back to life using reclaimed wood, recycled materials, and whatever the coastline itself offered us. Even today, parts of the kitesurf center wall are built from over 200 discarded flip flops collected from the ocean and beaches nearby.
The gardens were allowed to grow wild.
The old structures stayed standing.
The imperfections stayed visible.
And slowly, what was once an abandoned beach house became Salty’s Kitesurf Village.
What started as a small kitesurf destination became something much bigger than we ever planned.
A place where people come for a weekend and accidentally stay for a month.
A place where strangers share dinners and become lifelong friends.
A place where remote workers answer emails between swims.
A place where geckos live in the walls, birds wake you up in the morning, and the ocean becomes part of your daily rhythm.
This is not luxury in the polished, perfect sense.
This is a different kind of richness.
The richness of history.
Of community.
Of nature.
Of slowing down enough to notice small things again.
This month, we want to properly open the doors to every room in this house and show you the many different ways people experience Salty’s.
Not just as guests.
But as people who live here, even if only for a little while.
And because some places deserve more than a quick escape, our Stay Longer offer is running until the end of June.
Book 5 nights, stay 7
Book 10 nights, stay 14
Book 15 nights, stay 21
Book 20 nights, stay 28
Take your time here.
This house has already survived decades by the ocean.
It knows how to wait for people slowly.