Sunset beach Kanyakumari

There are certain things that bring immense feelings of gratitude for being born on this earth. A beach with a great sunset is one of them.

We decided to drive down to Kanyakumari this time around as opposed to going by flights and taxis. I would have loved to do that on my Kawasaki anyway, but owing to the fact that my wife has never visited Kanyakumari in 45+ years of her life, I had to make a quick dash to show her the place.

Owing to it being a long weekend with a string of holidays, I had anticipated and prepared for the worst with respect to traffic on the highways. But somehow this time the traffic was a bit lesser as the crowds had already dispersed earlier on.

I thought driving 12 hours will be a bit cumbersome, so I decided to halt at the residency karur for one night before I continued onward to Kanyakumari. I have already reviewed the residency hotel in karur in this blog earlier if you want to check out what it feels like being there, you can read that blog post.

I split the 12 hour journey into two parts so that I could drive a bit slowly after breakfast at karur, to Kanyakumari. The second day the drive lasted about six hours and we had a couple of stops for lunch, and at the Muppandal windmill farm, something that I wanted my kid and wife to experience and cherish.

This windmill farm literally has hundreds of windmills, and it is split by the highway going through, which is somewhat of a bypass to Nagercoil town. It’s a site to behold, and once mind automatically feels refreshed, seeing so many windmills turning in the wind. The best time to reach there is somewhere after 2 PM and you can see all the windmills turning with the wind. The wind itself is very very strong and it was quite a cumbersome task to negotiate about 30 to 40 km on the bike. With the car, however, since there was a windshield, there was some amount of protection available.

After spending a good amount of time at this windmill farm and clicking a bit of photos, some really near to the windmills, we proceeded on to reach Annai resorts and spa in Kanyakumari. we had time just to check into the resort, leave our baggage in the room and start our brisk walk to the Sunset Beach, where we could spend the rest of the evening, watching a beautiful sunset.

Being a long holiday weekend, there was a lot of crowd on this beach, making it very difficult to get into the waters as there are very few places where we can get into the water while most of it is rocky and inaccessible.

I still manage to get into the water and be there in the water for a while, and also manage to get some interesting photographs of the sunset. Though in this digital age getting AI generated, Sunset photographs is not a big deal, but still the emotion involved in being at the beach during sunset is always going to be the same curiosity of what technology we are using, and that is what I wanted to enjoy that evening.

After spending almost an hour at the Sunset Beach and also grabbing something to eat along the way in those small stalls there we walk back to the hotel each way being about a kilometre of walk, and we are very satisfied with the way the whole journey went all the way from karur up to Kanyakumari and back to the hotel for the evening. We ordered some food at the hotel itself and 8 to our hearts content before we had to call it a day. I’ll leave you with some of the photographs taken during the visit to Sunset Beach in Kanyakumari so that you can see them and enjoy.

Do dropping your comments if you have visited this beach and let me know what you felt in the comment section below.

A new outlook for 2022

A drive along the Chennai Bangalore highway

As 2021 came to a close, I realised that it was a full year from my last blog post on the bangalore blog. This meant a lot of things in between that took away my time. I got into two hobbies – biking and singing.

New hobbies

Since that last post, I have now managed to put up 10000km on my BMW which is the single best thing I have done in my life.

The other aspect of course is singing – I got into Smule App being a shy guy. I wanted to learn the nuances of singing correctly without the stage fear. A somewhat botched attempt to sing at my cousin’s wedding wanted me to aspire for much better stuff. With about 500 contributions so far on Smule, I now have come to a much better understanding of how to sing well and am much more confident to go on stage again. And it is pretty much time for another cousin to get married.

I have so many in my own generation who are not married yet so that would mean good food and great times for these weddings yet to come.

Covid attack

As I navigated the entire 2021 first trying to get vaccinated, then trying to be as safe as I could be with my family, we managed not to get into this Virus effect until now. Just when I thought I would start blogging again, Omicron hit us and the entire family is now recovering. Whether to feel bad that the virus hit us, or to feel good Delta did not hit us last year when we were not vaccinated, your guess is as good as mine on what I must be thinking.

Good things and bad

I spend the entire covid reign time in finalizing a house for myself which I am happy about so as to look out for a change in the near future. It is not going to be easy to handle this, but what is life without excitement!

I sold my SUV/MUV since I rationalized with myself that I am biking more than driving and I least bit have any regrets on what I did. It is liberating without a car occupying a driveway and not being driven anywhere versus to find a BMW bike which I can actually ride always and loads of space in the same driveway at home.

I still have a small car which too I do not drive much. So I think it is the end of cars for us as such.

I changed my job too into something much more involving, but the timings and the load worked on my mental health a bit and biking and singing balanced it out when it got a bit too much. I have now learnt what I need on a job that I take up and one of the options is to also retire if there is an opportunity.

Dawn of 2022 somewhere near Kolar

I also did not renew my blog on time and since the domain expired, I did it a bit late but also thought this is a good opportunity to move back to wordpress, a platform that I loved a lot for its ease of writing blog posts. And here I am doing precisely that with my new version of the bangalore blog.

As usual I will continue to bring you interesting info surrounding my life and my favourite city Bengaluru as time goes by, and wish you visit my blog often to share my happiness.

So here is to the new version of the wordpress hosted Bangalore Blog.