There are two things that I love a lot - travelling and adventure sports. So when I got a chance to go Tarkarli beach with my friends, I was more than delighted. The sea, beaches, waves, forts, islands, coconut trees, fishes, coral reefs made my trip a memorable experience.
I did scuba diving for the second time (first time was in Nice, France). I was so excited and could feel the adrenalin surging though my veins. I was more confident and comfortable breathing underwater this time. It was so tranquilizing. There is a whole new world underwater and you feel like exploring every drop of water in the ocean, swimming alongwith the fishes, just staying there and observing the marine beauty – coral reefs, different kinds of flora and fauna. I went around 30 feet under water. I could touch the sea bed covered with golden sand embedded with shells. I wish to do scuba diving again and this time alone, without an instructor.
The beaches were very clean and isolated unlike those of Bombay or Goa. I sat there on the beach, observing the sun set, waves crash into the shore and winds blow off my hair. And thought that this is life, nature in its very best. I want a house on the beach where I could do this every day and wake up early morning to run along the shore, sit on the beach and read my novel, run in the sea against the waves and make a necklace out of the numerous, multi-shaped shells on the beach.
What is it about gazing at the night sky, or looking at the horizon above the sea, or exploring the marine life make us so happy? I guess it is the realization that life is bigger than our preconceived notions and the fact we are also a part, howsoever small, of this beautiful nature. Our mundane problems in life seem so small and insignificant in front of this higher beauty. It inspires us to be a perfect, peaceful and beautiful human being just like and in harmony with nature.
Few items in my bucket list which I wish to do are
- Learn skiing (My dad just attended a week's skiing camp in Gulmarg, Kashmir. The temperatures fell down to as low as -20 deg C and it snowed almost daily!)
- Sky dive
- And travel around the world (link to some awesome places)
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