After Deepu returned from Hyderabad, this was our long weekend. With a second saturday and and sunday following a tiring friday, i had enough reason to take the whole two days off. Actually friday was by far the most tiring days in the recent past. With some extremist information flowing in, we planned a large scale operation into the forests and not only was it long lasting starting 0100 am and closing at 1400 pm that day but also was tough with a steep uphill climb for about 8 kms. Added to that I wore the wrong shoes that day and ended up limping half way through the trek with a shoe bite. The only solace was that I found Deepu waiting for me when I returned back home half dead. The rest of the friday afternoon was spent resting and nursing my sore heels.
For all that we went through on friday, saturday was well planned out. After lazing out the whole morning, post lunch we drove to place call Padukere about 5 kms from here. This place is actually an island with the Udyawara river on one side and the vast Arabian sea on the other. the strip of land is just about 50 mtrs wide and about 5 km long , the best part of the drive is having water on both sides passing through beautiful coconut groves and fishing villages.
That was not all., a visit to the St Mary's island was planned out for later part of the evening. We got on to the boat to the island at 4.15pm and after a great ride landed on the island at 5 pm. Though there were a couple of tourists along with us, me and Deepu made it a point to quickly dissapear to an undiscovered location. We spent the rest of the evening at the northern most tip of the island waiting for the sunset. It was a splendid sunset at 6.30pm after which we slowly walked back to the last boat that was waiting for us.
Sunday was again lazing around at home and in a desparate bid to move out.. we went to the beach in the evening just to watch the sunset. Running out of choices to spend the rest of the evening, we decided to go for a movie to Manglore. The movie was black friday, and it was worth the time & money . An evening well spent.
