Friday, 11 November 2011

Palolem - November 6th


Our first full beach day sees us wake up late again.  I think it is fair to say that the sleep last night was not as expected.  The noise of the waves which we thought we would hear was drowned out by the noise of the fan in the hut which sounded like a plane taking off.  It cooled us down, but the breeze was annoying and woke me many times in the night.

We have our first western style breakfast for a while in a slightly expensive café, and then we being our walk to a beach called Patnem which is about 2km south of our beach.  Of course as we are almost 1½ km up our beach it means we walk a good bit further.  When we get to the beach we find there are more cows on the beach than people.  It’s not that there are many cows, probably only a dozen or so, similar to Palolem beach, but there are so few people on the beach.

We begin sea and sun-bathing, but given we set out so late, it is now actually quite hot, and you can’t really lie in the sun for too long.  So eventually we have to retreat to one of the beach restaurants overlooking the beach.  These all have sun loungers and shade, and as long as you buy a drink or two from them they are happy to let you use them.  Of course the trap is you get lazy and end up ordering lunch from them as well.

At the end of the day we walk back to our beach and discover to our shock that it is even more packed (and dirty) due to the Sunday local day trippers who have descended en masse to it.  Still once the sun goes down they disappear and so we can walk up the beach to have a nice Goan fish dinner sitting on the beach in front of one of the restaurants with the waves breaking only a few feet away from us.

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