The Adventure Island!

Hi everyone, nice to see you back again through my post after quite some time.  Hope this post finds you all in good health.  It’s Friday night now and it was a wonderful week that had just passed. I was just thinking about the weekend plans and nothing worthwhile struck my mind, so just thought of connecting with you through my post. It’s been a long time and I always want to keep up with my blog.

Last weekend was one of the memorable and wonderful weekends for me; we were on a trip to Pondicherry just like that, it was totally an unplanned trip; we started off on Saturday afternoon after getting up late in the morning due to a friend’s birthday celebration last night. It was cloudy and a cool weather outside and so did the journey in the ECR (East Coast Road), though narrow at some stretches.

We had our lunch at a Dhabba on the way and continued our journey. While on our journey we found a boating place which hardly had anyone in it except a few boatmen who work for the state tourism department (TTDC). We don’t know if the gloomy weather was the reason for the desertedness or if the afternoon times here is usually like this. Out of curiosity we stopped the car and jumped out to get to the small front office present there.

The people over there were friendly and explained the various boating packages available; to our surprise they had a trip which will take us five kilometres in the backwaters to a small, less known island on the way to the Bay of Bengal. They also stated many interesting facts about the beach island, many movies have been shot at this place, for instance many scenes in the Tamil movie “Ayirathil Oruvan” were shot at this very place. So just to see how this place looks like and to see if it is worth its salt we decided to visit the place. We hired a motorboat for five of us excluding the boatman and started to sail towards the much hyped island.

As we were sailing through the back waters we could see the point where the backwaters met the Ocean (Bay of Bengal), which was really awesome to watch and to know. The journey lasted for around 15 minutes passing coconut and palm trees adding beauty to the place and the trip, the weather was just right and we were really lucky. We landed at a land resembling a beach with almost white sand that we usually see in the movies, to our surprise there was no one around this beautiful place. I haven’t seen such a beautiful place left unexploited. The air was free from pollution and the sands were free of plastic bags. The coconut trees and the backwaters just reminded me of Kerala - the God’s own country.  

After being there for about an hour the guide cum sailor alerted us that the time is over and we got to head back to our dock. We drank a tender coconut in the island and it was too good to taste, this place has really satisfied our thirst both for nature and water literally. I have posted a few pictures that were taken there in this blog, these were taken with the help of an ordinary digital camera and the pictures posted here don’t carry any photo shop or whatsoever effects. Just see if your eyes can believe it as real? If yes, what are you waiting for, pack up!