isolated beauty.. 28/12/08

Iceland is the best place for any kind of vacation. The geography itself isolates u from the world around and takes u to new place altogether.(for sure I m talking about the small Icelands here).
It was on our mind for very long time to visit Arnala fort near virar. If u have read the old blog u will know how we tried going but then were not mentally prepared. But this time we were all ready for it. Reached the beach at around 11:00am (one hour lateJ anyways). And then came to the jetty where we had to catch a boat, yes the same one we got scared of . But this time there was no fear at all. We pulled our pants up n jumped in the boat, was good fun to see the boat little empty than last time. 10min more and we were on our destination ‘Iceland’. There was no one waiting for us there neither anyone we knew, but strong fish smell welcomed us with all its love. All of us eat fish so we didn’t mind the smell. Moreover we ended up taking snaps with fish. And making someone taste fish. J so there we start having fun and going crazy.
The fort isn’t big, n there isn’t much to see inside the fort because there is just the fort wall and one temple inside. Still as we were not in hurry and being in architecture interest us in any of such things. So we climbed the steps which took us on the top of the wall. The view of the sea all around was really worth a see. As u know me and my cartoon we clicked many snaps .or I should say funny snaps. Fort wall wasn’t that big so we thought we will take a good 360 walk. Then we were on our journey of that walk. When our stomach started calling we got down from the wall n sat in a small shaded area (can call it arcade) and opened our tiffin. It reminded me of the school picnics when we used to ask each other to what u have in ur tiffins.(good old days) We all knew there wont be any hotel on the fort so all of us had tiffins. Except Pritish, but he is excused cos he doesn’t stay with his family.

And u wont imagine how amazing it felt to sit on that cold basalt stone with that cooling breeze, and for sure the good food, thanks to vidhi for butter chicken . love u sweetheart. So had nice lunch there. Sat there chit chating cos we hardly meet nowadays cos of the office. At one point Ritesh said we will always be like this and won’t split up. All agreed to it. And to tell u frankly I love all of them I wont like even a singe person going out of the group. Have my fingers crossed. Anyways we didn’t get any emotional cos the place was too good to do that..i don’t remember whose idea was that but I know u would find it wired that we did a proper ramp walk there with Pritish being the show stopper.( yeah he did that J) I must say it was funny as well as good. Good fun. After all the fun we were back to the 360 walk of ours. And then again at one point we got all involve in a good photo session. Like we have always been in all our outings. When Pritish becomes the photographer and we all his models. The photos came out to be really good though.And the scariest moment was when we saw a live snake passing in front of us. Me and Rush are super scared of the snake and I m sure the snake must have freacked too cos of the way screamed. Phhhat gayi thi big time. The walk was soon over with after the snake thing. We ended up jumping like kids when we saw a pile of hey. We couldn’t resist to jump on it cos have never done that before. Was too good of a fun. Had to run away from there cos people were giving us looks. Its not that we really are but still we had lot to explore. Next good surprise was the beach. it was all empty and the water was crystal clear . with loads of small shells on the beach. Reminded us about or 1st year trip to devgad. We enjoyed the water. Played there. Made some visionary pose J. And left that place, next destination was light house but we couldn’t do much there cos there was no way to reach the top of it. Only our monkey (Pritish) managed to climb up and peep.
So that’s how the whole outing happened and then we were back on our journey home. But the big fun was to get into the boat again. We got all wet and didn’t care much. Then nothing, back to our own places, back to the concrete jungle. Waiting for our next trip which would mostly be another amazing place Kaneri caves, national park, that also on our cycles. Let’s see how that comes up.
Will surely tell, u till then u have fun, and try to get out of our concrete jungle cos there is much more stored in there for us in the arms of nature….