Its a family
friendly vacation destination and one of dad's long pending Must
see places. We started
early morning in our car to cover most of the distance and take a break near to
lunch time. Finally decided to halt at Chiplun and checked into a hotel
for lunch and called off the day at 3.00pm and spend evening scrolling
around the small town. The next day we planned to start early but finally got delayed and started at 9.00 and reached out Tarkarli at 3.00pm.
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| At Chiplun |
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| Chiplun Ride |
Dinner at a Malvani place but for me it was again dal - rice.... dont know when will people consider me a big girl :)
From the
Mumbai it's around 500km on the Mumbai –Goa highway to reach Tarkali. There were many home
stays and eating options with Malvan cuisine and most of them are beach
facing. But we stayed in a nice resort near to the beach…and all thanks to moms +Samsung tab for navigating the route.
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| Early Morning at Tarkarli Beach |
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| MTDC Tarkarli boat house |
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| Tarkarli Beach near MTDC |
In short, a lot can happen in a week... it was a fun filled one week of chilling, relaxing, lot of eating by
all and me on baby food and Dal rice.. and not to forget the surfing on the sea
beach. This was my first visit to any beach and experiencing all these holding my dad’s finger close to me and mom busy clicking our pics....Mastercard wala priceless :) The thing I liked the most was our daily routine visit to the beach for
a morning walk. I loved the waves touching my feet and the sand just whispering out slowly under me… all this was so much fun and me on top of the world.
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| Walk the talk with dad |
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| Walking on the beach |
At the end when we
reached hotel, it was sand on my feet, sand on my jeans..sand everywhere..
but all was fun at the end with mom screaming and me having a good bath with
dad :)
My photo
shoot on the beach by dad while rest all fast asleep at the resort…it was fun.... only me
and dad on the beach
We also
went to see the snorkeling point and by the time dad went deep into the sea I was
fast asleep … but later saw what all he did on the camera
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| Snorkelling point off Tarkarli beach |
From Snorkelling
point we went to see the fort build by Chatrpati Shivaji. It was OK, nothing excited me as such, but my grandma felt very proud of the king and his farsightedness
to build a fort in the middle of the sea.
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| On the boat to Snorkelling point Tarkarli |
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| @ Sindhudurg fort Tarkarli |
Lunch halt at one of the home stay resort !!
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| Post Lunch nap at hotel .. nothing more can we asked .... |
After my photo shoot Fishermen uncle took the boat for fishing and promised to get some fish for me... Life is Good :)
On the last day we fixed up a boat ride at Devbag village which is on the sangam(intersection of River and Sea) of Karli river with Arabian Sea to have a view of dolphin sight and Tsunami Island.
Pictures taken on the way back to Mumbai via Kolhapur... and dad showing off some of his post processing skills !!! We stopped near a sunflower field for some clicks....
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| Red Sunflower - My dad's invention :) |
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| Original me and mom @ Sunflower Farm |
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| Green Sunflower :) will not say anything now... |
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| Ladies in conversation... |
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| I don't want to go back |
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| Anisha at Kamat cafe near pune |
Finally
we said Adiós to the beautiful small beach town and started back to Mumbai. While
back we took the Kolhapur way just to check a different route and decided not
to have a stay over and was back home by 10pm. It was a long tiring journey but
on moms shoulder enjoyed each moment. As the same I may never get once grown up…….
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| Time to say Ta Ta Bye Bye |
