It started off as the famed beach trek. The 'beach trek' is a couple of days’ hike along the beaches and hills that line part of the western coast of India. You start off from Gokarna (or sometimes further north) and go on south to Kumta (about 25kms down) or Honavar, or further south. Essentially, you climb up a hill or two, stop and admire the sea down below at spots, walk down the hill wherever you see a beach, walk across the beach to the cliffs at its end, climb them, traverse another hill or two, go down to the next beach and so on... you cover quite a few beaches that way:)

It didn't go quite as planned, but it was still a good weekend!

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It was all really a lot more exciting than the description, but the pics should say that well enough!:)

... but this was on the West coast. Almost all the way down to the end of it at Trivandrum. My friend got married there on Saturday.

The much anticipated and prepared for monsoon (Waterproof jacket, old sandals, cameras) however did not deign to show up. This left a lot of the people involved with the wedding quite happy though. The wedding itself was nice fun, and was followed by a yummy lunch reception. And then we all trooped over to the groom's house after that, socialised a bit, and then hit the beaches.

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I went to the seaside for the weekend, which sounds a little silly when I say it considering I live on the coast. Well, I went further down the coast about 7 kms short of Mahabalipuram, and had fun.

I took a lot of pics too. That’s where the issue arises. I forgot to check the settings on the phone, and therefore, other than a couple of sensible pics that clicked themselves all right, the others are all prettily sized at 160 x 120. Which however lends itself well to nice collages.

So here’s the weekend in collages.

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