A planned Trek that got converted to Trip !

Who : We call ourselves as the "Yo Maamah" trekkers. A team of 15 members, aged from 16 to 34 years comprising of 3 Ladies and 12 Gentlemen.

What : Headed for A Beach Trek.

When: 27 -28 June 2009 (Sat and Sun)

Where : Gokarna to Kumta(approximately, a distance of 15 kms)

How : Walking along the beach side.

Why : For Sheer Fun and Rejuvenation.
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History - In the beginning, we were 11 guys. More people were interested. So, 1 more guy joined in. And then 3 more ladies got added. Made an exhaustive planning, got the activities distributed across the people(such as food department,tents & bags, snacks,transport booking etc). All of us were excited. Also, to let you know, we were all trekkers and understood the planning aspects very well.

The Story - The bus was set to depart at 9:00 pm on Friday evening. 7 of us met in the main bus stand,while the 0ther 8 were supposed to be picked in another stop. In the bus stand, we realise that, people are carrying multiple baggages.(reason - back pack is small, and more luggage). Also back packs were quite heavy as well. So, inevitably, we journey to the destination of Gokarna.

Day 1 -
Its Saturday Morning 7:00 am and we arrive at Gokarna. Interestingly, we had a Gokarna(small cow) joining us and was too keen to find some food. It was tooo stubborn to leave us alone. Biscuits were fed, however it was still hungry. We had a tough time to moo it away. Meanwhile, the team was busy with the "nature" activities available in the bus stand area. Rain was still drizzling and got us a little worried.

So,its about 8:00 am and we are set to begin the "Trek" from the bus stand. We head towards our first stop point - break fast. It was about a furlong. However, everybody,began to feel the pain of the multiple baggages along with the back packs. The weather was humid though it rained. It made us tired very fast. So we enter the "Pai Restaurant" and have a sumptuous breakfast - idli,masala dosa,buns were the most preferred ones. While we were savoring, the rain started pouring heavily. We were clueless what to do..Just continued to enjoy our breakfast. When we were done with breakfast, the rain god decided to show some mercy.

After breakfast, we headed towards the Gokarna Beach which was a furlong walk from the Pai restaurant. We walked through a narrow road and suddenly, we were mesmerised by the entire scape of the beach, the white waves under the greyish-white sky, welcoming us with the thudding sound of the waves lashing on the shore. This was our first sight of the beach and we were like WOW !!.

Then, we walked past the road next to the beach, climbed and descended the rocks to reach Kudlee Beach. This was our first walk on the shore now, next to the waves. It was pretty flat. Some of us started to play football while we walked through the beach. By this time, maybe around 11:00 am, we were exhausted with the heavy load on the back. We panted and puffed our way to climb another set of rocks.

While we ascended the rocks after kudlee beach, Mr. Rain God wanted to have some fun, so he came with a heavy down pour. Guys opened a big plastic light green sheet and tied two ends to the small plants around and people held the rest of the edges and sat down under it. We sat there for about 20 minutes, while the Rain God was enjoy the scene. We got tired sitting under the sheet, and people started to come out of the sheet and decided to get drenched. After we all came out..Rain God got bored and relaxed a bit..We headed our journey towards descending the rocks to reach OM Beach. It was about 12:30 pm when we started descending.

As we descended and entered into the open space, we were graced by the view of the OM beach. And had to descend down further through the steps to touch the shore. The waves here seemed quite angry. The sound and the high tides made us ensure that it wasnt going to be easy.
Moreover, we were already fatigued to just walk about 3kms from the busstand. One set of people started to play Frisbee, foot ball and high catches with Tennis ball. While the other set of people(thinktanks) started to see, how to go about for the next half of the day. They were informed by the locals, that there was no way, that we could trek further to the "Half Moon Beach"(next destination after OM beach) as it was very risky. Our experience has always told us to trust the locals. And we decided to settle in OM Beach itself. Until we decided, Rain god was keeping us frustrated with periodic drizzles. After he heard us,that we'd stay in the OM beach itself, he was excited and kept us happy without any further rains. It was about 1:15 pm and we decided to have home-made carried chappatis for lunch. Chutney powder(alias gun powder) and some tasty chutney were served. Thanks to Manjesh and Rajanish's moms for the tasty chapattis and curries.
It was 14:30, by the time, we were done with lunch.

Without wasting time, we got into a playful mood. Since the sea got all low-tide and friendly, we started to get into the waves. We played frisbee, football and tennis ball. Parallely, some of them relaxed and prepared masala tea. While some resorted to go back to Namaste cafe for rooms. Since we were concerned about high tides at night. So, we booked 5 rooms , but decided to enter only after dinner in the night. Since the baggages had all the stuff for preparing dinner.


Post lunch activities - Coming Soon.