pulicat lake and the beautifull night
"do you see anything?" kinky asked
" yes ,there are people some 300 mts from here ,and i can hear their voices........and i cant see properly because hot wind is distorting my view and also producing mirages right from the horizon up till some 30 mts from me" i answered ..........an unusually long one.as we were just cycling and cycling and cycling .........without talking to each other( as if we knew it is of no use any longer) .
Kinky did not see anybody and heard no voices.
He thought that I am going to collapse any moment soon and asked " do you have any water?"
I said "no. it is with chinky and i think they are seven kms behind"
kinky thought ( he told me this later) that perhaps one of us is going to die here.
the road was long ,dry, hot and straight went to meet the horizon .the landscape was dry,parched ,hot,burnt and ghostly with no single living creature in sight.air was salty, dry ,burning .the sun viciously was burning our skin with a blow torch and the map showed we are standing right in the middle of the pulicat lake ...........in a national bird sanctuary .
sri harikota was only some kms away. i could see the launch pad.
kinky told me later he did not see any.
the journey started of with much excitement and joy. ravi shankar joined us this time and pannicker and kutty( veterans of mahab trip) did not come for this trip. we left our hostel at 4 in morning and then cycling through the chennai city ( traffic was high even at this time) we reached outer city by 6. it took us 2 hrs to do 25 kms as heavy lorries and trucks plied on road. by the day break we were 35 kms from chennai. ravi shankar was coming really slow and was left behind by several kms.
we stopped at the toll gate and took tea there , also decided to wait for ravi . he came after 30 minutes and told us that he stopped on the way to hv tea .
there was nothing much special to tell about in the initial phase of journey as much was spend on highway with traffic and inside city.
" yes ,there are people some 300 mts from here ,and i can hear their voices........and i cant see properly because hot wind is distorting my view and also producing mirages right from the horizon up till some 30 mts from me" i answered ..........an unusually long one.as we were just cycling and cycling and cycling .........without talking to each other( as if we knew it is of no use any longer) .
Kinky did not see anybody and heard no voices.
He thought that I am going to collapse any moment soon and asked " do you have any water?"
I said "no. it is with chinky and i think they are seven kms behind"
kinky thought ( he told me this later) that perhaps one of us is going to die here.
the road was long ,dry, hot and straight went to meet the horizon .the landscape was dry,parched ,hot,burnt and ghostly with no single living creature in sight.air was salty, dry ,burning .the sun viciously was burning our skin with a blow torch and the map showed we are standing right in the middle of the pulicat lake ...........in a national bird sanctuary .
sri harikota was only some kms away. i could see the launch pad.
kinky told me later he did not see any.
the journey started of with much excitement and joy. ravi shankar joined us this time and pannicker and kutty( veterans of mahab trip) did not come for this trip. we left our hostel at 4 in morning and then cycling through the chennai city ( traffic was high even at this time) we reached outer city by 6. it took us 2 hrs to do 25 kms as heavy lorries and trucks plied on road. by the day break we were 35 kms from chennai. ravi shankar was coming really slow and was left behind by several kms.
we stopped at the toll gate and took tea there , also decided to wait for ravi . he came after 30 minutes and told us that he stopped on the way to hv tea .
there was nothing much special to tell about in the initial phase of journey as much was spend on highway with traffic and inside city.
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