Uppunda Beach

Well, you might have never heard of this beach. Off course it is true, as it is not a tourist spot. But I think this is one of the beautiful beaches, off course it's my hometown beach.

Just 2-3 kilometers away from our house lies the uppunda beach. Well, being born and brought up in coastal town, it might not be that fascinating for me to see the beaches, but it makes sense to visit the beaches at least once or twice an year.

The beach looks totally deserted (off course as I said it is not a tourist spot) except few fisherman here and there. Well, I think it is definitely a place for someone to meditate as you wont hear anything other then the roaring sea.

There was a group of fisherman trying to topple a boat for some repair which was clearly showing their 'team work' !

One of the fascinating thing I could see this time was, the water coming over the rock formations which I used to go over during childhood. By seeing the force of water coming like a waterfall, I did not dare to go on top of it.

Now I am sure you agree, Uppunda beach is one of the beautiful beach that you would visit given a chance :)

Deep inside fierce clouds in Gopal Swamy Betta

We started from Nanjangud around 5:30 in the morning towards Gundlupet which was around 35 KM from here. Although it rained few days before and the forecast also of scattered rains, it was surprisingly pleasant without any rain. We took right turn after Hangala village (after Gundlupet) and started going towards the Gopal Swamy Hill. There was slight drizzle on the way, but it looked to be a sunny day ahead. After 4-5 kilo meters the mountains started appearing with clouds covered over them. The view was excellent.


As we went up the hill in second gear, we could feel the clouds and the drizzle looked to be intensified with winds. When we reached the top of the hill in front of Gopal Swamy Betta at around 7:00 AM, it was a real shocker for us. The wind was blowing super fast, small droplets from the clouds started hitting us at like tiny bullets. The breeze was blowing so fast, it was virtually pushing us aside. The sound was like of a tornado! The temperature feeling like around 10 degrees with heavy winds, we started running towards the temple to get some shelter.


The temple was closed (may be the priest might have checked the weather forecast well) and there were several people standing there. There were several groups of youngsters enjoying the winds and shouting hard to beat the cold.

I dared to take some picture, although it looked like my camera will fly away in the winds or water goes inside the lens.

Because of the thick clouds, we were able to hardly see for few meters. For some time it looked like wind is going to stop, as we could see the visibility increasing and wind reducing.

However, it was just for few minutes, as it all started again. We came back to the car and sat and started having chips. We went out again after some time, just to see the winds and drizzle blowing at same intensity as earlier. We went around the temple for some time, and decided to start back.
As we started driving down, suddenly the wind and rain disappeared just after coming down half a kilo meter. It was real surprise to see so much weather changes with in altitudes. We stopped on the way back to enjoy the greenery and take some snaps. And when we reached the bottom, it was all normal, no rain, no winds and usual sunny day!!

In the end it was a lifetime experience to go deep inside the fierce clouds and really see how it feels to be in there!!!

Boomi Pooja at #632, Pride Vatika

It was the "official" function to start off the construction of our house at Pride Vatika Layout in BannerGhatta-Anekal road. We started from JP Nagar around 6:00 in the morning, took our priest near Sai Baba temple in JP Nagar and reached the site by 7:00 AM.
Ashok and Vasudha brought some bricks for the Pooja and the priest started with the formalities for the pooja.

Although, I thought the pooja to be in quick Bangalore style, the priest looked to be performing it in typical bhoomi pooja style compleeting all formalities.

We completed the Pooja by 9:00 and returned back to home.

Picnic to Bannerghatta Butterfly park

From long time we wanted to go to the butterfly park near the Bannerghatta national park thinking that it might be of special interest to my son. Finally got time in this February to visit it along with Bannerghatta zoo.

The butterfly park was indeed a park, but the area where butterflies existed was not that bigger then I thought initially. However, you will get to see several varieties of butterflies flying over there. The butterflies where kept under a glashouse garden which was asthetically designed. There is an butterfly museam which show cases different varieties of insects and butterflies.

There is enough place to sit and relax outiside the galss house in the park. 

Evening in Ottinene Gudde

Last February, after several hearings from my wife on not taking her till now, I decided to go to Ottinene Gudde a small hill on the seashore near Byndoor. Since it was hardly 4 KM from Uppunda, it did not take much time to reach there. One need to take turn in the road near the Raghavendra Temple which goes towards sea. 

Halfway through that road we stopped to see the beautiful sea from top view. It was an excellent view of river joining the sea(Alive). We took some time to have Forest fruits (Kiskara Hannu) before proceeding further.

Once we reached the dead end, we parked our car there and went down the steps. It was bit isolated with hardly 2-3 other small groups around. Although they built some guest house etc. there was not much tourism development, considering the beauty of the place.

Once you go down and reach halfway, there is a road from where you get beautiful view of sunset. I took some time to take some snaps of the sun. You could even go further down and enjoy on the seashore and on the rocks. However, it might not be that safe place to go much forward in the sea, as this is near to the place where river & sea join which is normally considered as unsafe.

Europe in front of our house

The trees in front of our house in JP Nagar gave a European look this time. 

Family freind!

Last summer a tiny squirrel fell down accidentally to our well at Uppunda. Somehow my father noticed it and could bring it up from the well using kodapana. He then gave it some milk and rusk and put him up on the trees.

Then onwards it became a good freind of my father. My father used to call it daily evening for milk and rusk near the tree where he left it and voila!. It used to come from no where. It was so freindly that it used come freely on my father body to drink milk. Myself and my young son tried to go near and it ran away seeing the strangers!

It was coming to eat for several days until it grewup and now a days I dont see it coming.