Showing posts with label Samudra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samudra. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Samudra @ Dusk



My family decides  to visit the Gandhi statue beach at short notice.  I would have loved to be there with a bit of brightness around but I couldn't have chosen the time.  Now my limitations in handling the manual settings are in full view.  If only I had a stable hand.......



Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Nava Pashanam at Devipattanam and Sethukarai


We proceeded to Sethukarai, literally translated as 'Shore of the bridge', where Lord Hanuman is said to have meditated for a way of reaching Lanka and got the thought of the bridge across the ocean. Our contact told us country boats would take us to the place where the bridge existed (someone told me that the best time to go was when the sun shone brightly, so as to see the coral reef or the Rama Setu). Alas, it was almost dark, though the wind was friendly, and that was it. Hope you'll like the pictures!


Waist deep water at Devipattanam (some of the pashanams are actually under water)

Sunday, February 10, 2013

The Flat Sea of Dhanushkodi


We went on a pilgrimage to Rameswaram in December, 2010. I had no idea of a great experience with Samudra when I left for the place. Wow, it was a case of 'Water, water everywhere'!
At Dhanushkodi, December, 2010

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Kovalam Beach, Thiruvananthapuram


After a tour of Chowara, we proceeded to the Kovalam beach- it is compact, and the sea is flat, enabling people in venturing moderately deep inside. It is compacted by boulder formations on either side. With the kind of team I was there, venturing deep into the sea was out of question. I made some fuss about taking a round in the speed boat- after all, I'd be well within sight. The result was an expected veto but I vicariously enjoyed when others took it!!


'Come here, so that I may enlighten you', the Sun seems to say @ Kovalam