Destination Ganpatipule (Continued...)

When we were about to die under the sun after fighting for the accomodation, we decided to shift the gear from hotels to lodges and fortunately for us, the first one that we inspected was as good as a decent hotel. Without blinking our eye, we decided to make it our "sweet home" for the next two nights. Anurag insisted on a balcony wala room, although it was a bit costly than others, as if he was going to pose in front of it whole evening! By this time, we were dead tired, skipping lunch we were dead on the bed for the next 3 and a half hours.

Anurag was interested in seeing the beauty of sun set but he just forgot that we need to get out of the bed on time to watch it. Probably he satisfied himself taking glimpses of setting sun in his dreams! Finally we got up at around 7. After taking bath (this was the second bath of the day and there were plenty in the next two days!) we decided to take a leisurely walk to the beach which was just behind our lodge. Chewing peanuts, we set our foot on the white sand of Ganpatipule which was exceptionally smooth! Coconut water was followed by the long walk on the beach with occassional wading in the sea water. We were in no mood to immerse ourselves in water so we laid our backs on the rocks there. The waves were quite a distance from the rocks but they were moving towards us with each passing minute (high tide). With nothing planned for the evening, we were just gazing at the stars and the vast sea. Now, there is something very unique with the sea. Its vastness, on the one hand mesmerises you and on the other the same vastness frighten you. Atleast i experience this.

To make myself more comfortable, i took out my wallet and placed it on the rocks. After about half an hour of heavenly pleasure, the first sea waves touched the feet of the rocks and it was the time for us to go back. We were too hungry and had to make a few phone calls too...again a leisurely walk through the beach and to the STD booth. Time to pay Mr. Gaurav. Just a minute, where is the wallet? It must be sitting pretty on the rock?or take this...The rock must be completely immersed in the water by now..and with it my wallet must be somewhere in the midst of the sea! With these thoughts, I probably ran the fastest 800mts on this planet. I guess i clocked better than Wilson Kipketar that day! Now, my wallet was not as expensive as of any young lady as there were no lipsticks, nailpolishes and face powder, still it had credit cards, pan card, driving license and cash which by no means are lesser than the cosmatics! Fortunately when i reached the rock, there was still some time left for the sea to gulp it and i got back my wallet just in time!

After the drama, we were too hungry and decided to have dinner at MTDC restaurant. and the quantity was suggesting as if we were having dinner after ages! After dinner it was beach time again. One of the best feeling that u can have on earth is to wade bare footed in the sea water. The pleasure is beyond words. We returned to the room pretty late in the night and soon after started making plans for the next day. By this time, all my 13 friends joined us too. Before sleeping, we decided to visit another Shivaji's fort, named Jaigad Fort, which was 35 kms from Ganpatipule. As always we decided to leave early. Our bodies served us a clear cut 'NO' when it was the time to awake and we finally woke up at 8. As soon as we got ready to leave, we realised that my friends had other ideas. And within 20 minutes we were in the sea waves again. Without colours but plenty of water. Really a unique experience to celebrate holi on the beach! After 2 hrs of sheer fun, we were back to the room and another bath followed and soon after we were on road to Jaigad. Reached there in half an hour and like all other Shivaji's fort this too had nothing except walls. But the sea behing it was making things beautiful. Again our camera roll ditched us and there were no signs of life around the fort, let alone a shop to purchase roll.We were so disgusted that we decided not to click any more snaps and because of this reason we just have 12 snaps of this entire visit!

On our way back, we spotted another sea beach, yet to be named and probably yet to be touched by man (this is a slight exaggeration). We just love to follow non existant routes and followed another one to get to that beach and we were the only guys there! It seemed like a private property to us! Another encounter with the waves followed for the next 45 minutes and when our satisfaction quotient reached 200%, we decided to go back only to find our room mates missing from the lodge. We had no other option but to take another walk on the beach...Fortunately the fellows returned after sometime and in no time we were dead again....

To be continued.....