Rivers Beaches Beckon Tourists

Life is said to be better  when you spend it on a beach, because it affords  you the opportunity to relax, swim or go surfing  if you have what it takes to do so.  You can even sprawl in the open, these activities do  a lot of good to the body.
There are a handful of beaches in Rivers State that will make you to come back to the inviting  white sands and palm trees  time and again. Some of the natural beaches  in the state that beckons, on tourists include: Isaka Holiday Resort,  Agaja beach,  Elem Kalabari beach (slave rout) etc.
The Isaka Holiday Resort is set on 103 hectres of on Isaka area. This place was relatively  active leisure  and recreational centre in the 1970s attracting both local and international tourists.
It is with a lake  located  to the west front and outstretch of sand  beach  estuary of the Bonny River, a water way that leads to one of Nigeria’s major seaports.
Agaja Beach:  This is   a beautiful  site of the light of Bonny with   panoramic nature of the Atlantic ocean. The  resort is richly endowed  with natural  white sand beach  stretching  for more than 15 kilometres and with a blend of tropical rain and mangrove forest.
It’s regime is located  south of Bonny town,  the home of Nigeria’s  Liquefied   Natural  Gas (LNG).
It is approximately 10 km away from Bonny Town, 45 minutes by speed boat  from Port Harcourt and can be  reached  through the Bomu/Bonny Federal High way under construction. The Agaja beach is also noted  for whales and hippopotamus.
The Port Harcourt Boat club established in 1960 is a  private club  that  is located in  a serene site along the city’s waterways to the Bonny river. In addition to regular boat race, water skirting and yatching  activities. This tourist attraction offers memorable  excitement to visitors/spectators  during its annual boat race.
Apart from the foregoing, the state also boasts of historical sights and monuments  such as King Jaja of Opopo and King Dappa Pepple monuments, excavation site in Ke,
St Paul’s Cathedral Opobo, Historic Royal Niger Company in Krigeni as well as lakes and ponds such as Ellah lakes at Obrikom, probomu fish ponds and Niger Delta Basin Authority (NDBA) fish pond at Bodo etc.