Nomadic Drives : Celebrating a decade of togetherness

[Nomad]

Inside, there is a hall with old pictures of Gandhiji and at the center we can sit down and pay our tributes.


i am attaching here some of the images of those photographs.





























I have often found foreigners having lots of interest in Indian History, Mahatma Gandhiji, Freedom Struggle and Non Violence.


I have also met Indian youngsters who do not care about these, or display lack respect for these things.

As we missing the larger picture ? or these things are taken for granted ?

with these questions in mind, we paid our tributes to Mahatma, sat there for few minutes and then moved out.

[Nomad]

We went on the terrace of the Gandhi Memorial. Me and daughter enjoyed the breeze and the panaromic view while wife tried some panaromic clicks using Sony HC-55 camera.









Also some close up images of the sights using Nikon D90.













She seems to have tried hard to zoom and focus on to the south pole, this was all she could manage


After spending some time enjoying the breeze and view, we came down and bid good to Gandhi Memorial

[Nomad]

While we were on the terrace of Gandhi Memorial, we saw the Sunset view point at a distance, here are some clicks taken from the terrace of Gandhi memorial.




taking a closer look..


a lone boat at far away distance.


close up of the Gandhi Memorial hall taken while returning from terrace.


another view of the memorial


after this we started walking towards sunset view point.

[Nomad]

Last few days, i was busy reading the travelogues by venbab, trustvishwas, fernando, anubhavt, KRRaj, avinash, rksingh1. hence could not post further on this. i would say some of the best travelogues i would say. most important thing is this forum which enables us to read, experience such wonderful writing, photography etc free of cost.

"happiness when shared multiplies", this statement is true. thanks a bunch guys.


Coming back to this travelogue, we started walking towards the sunset view tower.

We saw this light tower


Sky was begining to turn a combination of golden and black


a lady selling plastic flowers and other small items, look at the enthusiastic kid shoppers


View of the rocky coast


Close look at the buildings


Sea waves are roaring


The Golden Miracle Moment is fast approaching.


We soon climbed the tower and reached the top floor. Wife told me, "I know you love to watch sunset, here is your chance"

Indeed it was probably once in a life time opportunity, i do not remember the last Sunset at Kanyakumari. I was not sure when will be the next opportunity. There were lot of tourists like us on that view tower, they were all waiting for the golden moment.

this time, i was free as wife was doing the clicking duty..

[Nomad]

She did a great job clicking the most sought after sunset view in India.

Panaromic view of the coast


despite dark clouds, she managed this !


I was happy seeing this in real, now i am indeed proud that she captured it the best possible manner.


Another view, i have slightly touched this up w.r.t. brightness contrast settings.


Soon SUN said "Good Bye all Indians, See you tomorrow, have a nice evening and a good night !"


Panaromic view of the other side of the coast


A closer view


Another view


This rock taught me the importance of being at the "right place",


This rock could have been the famous vivekananda rock, now unknown. but it remains strong and solid despite facing such a onslaught of water waves 24x7. Famous or Not, one has to do the job one is assigned to do.

[Nomad]

We continued to enjoy the breeze and some fantastic time on the top of the tower.

View of the Light tower and probably TTDC hotel


Take a closer look at the watch tower, this is square and not round like other towers


CLoser look at the Gandhi Mandapam, Vivekananda rock and the Tamil Poet's Statue


View of the tower, good that there are no steps,


Some enthusiastic tourists are trying to click images on the ground floor, what they want to click ?


this was the view they were clicking, wife also tried to zoom on to the south pole, this was all she could manage.


Sea was begining to be violent and waves begin to hit the shore with more force


The rock memorial lighting begin to turn on


Another click before we begin to walk down the tower


I for sure did not want to come back, but yes, with my dear ones already at the bottom of the tower, i had no choice but to follow them

[Nomad]

While i was coming down the tower, wife and daughter were busy clicking these pictures.





















Clock was at 6:50 PM, we slowly started walking back, we were happy that we could watch sunset at Kanyakumari.

[avinash]

We also found this interesting looking vehicle

this interesting (really??) vehicle is the Hindustan Trekker. HM's answer to the multi passenger rural transport segment. By Multi Passenger i meant in multiples of 10's+ sacks+goats etc. It's made on a slightly modified Ambassador chassis and mostly runs on the engines the Ambassador runs on. I'm not sure if it still being made though. Knowing HM, they sure could be selling them in West Bengal even today...that is where I last saw the max numbers of HM Trekkers.


Nice Tlog. Its very interesting that you give names to every post like Chapters of a novel.

[Nomad]

We found this interesting board while waking back, but no one knew about where this is at the hotel reception


Light tower begin to show some direction to the ships at sea


Street vendors doing roaring business


We did not go inside


Lights becoming brighter at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial and Thiruvalluvar statue


The Great Tamil Poet's statue is 133 feels tall


Icecream vendor trying had to do some of the last sale for the day


RS 5 Store


RS 20 Store


We walked back along with a large crowd. Soon we reached our room, refreshed ourselves, watched TV for some time and enjoyed some more sea breeze from the balcony.

[Nomad]

The view outside was very tempting for some night photography. But camera was out of bounds for me. Wife tried several clicks but could not succeed. I was asked to give step by step instructions and some result is as below.











I am proud of her that she could manage these hand held long exposure shots.

This is my 400th post in this forum, i am happy that i could share these pictures in this post.