Kakdwip, Bokkhali and Us

First of all, I must confess I was disturbed a lot by one of my posts called "Faces". It had a clear indication that Mr.P is heartless and does not care about pain of people. All he cares about is a "good" shot. I have got the post deleted. Mr.P is not that bad, he can't be. After the deletion, I feel light to some extent and so does this poor Mr.P.

Now, Hi. :)

Last weekend, my brother Bishan (Biki), Deepak (you know him, right... my friend and colleague) and I went out of Kolkata, about a hundred kilometer down south in 24 Parganas(S) district to places like Kakdwip, Bokkhali and Henry Island. Yes, the Kakdwip is the same place where my uncle has some land and a farm house. A detailed tour is there in the post Kaakdeep - a break (I know the Kakdwip spelling is incorrect!).

We reached at about 12:30pm on Saturday (22nd Jan 2011) after travelling in a local train and sat on the cement benches near the stairs of the pond inside the premises.

I had missed out this swan in that earlier post. My uncle's daughter calls this CHUNNU (or MUNNU... I dont know!. Actually there are more than one and no way to distingush!). The water droplets on its super white feather were the things which made Mr.P took this picture.

After that Moong Dal and Alu Bhaja and Chicken Curry by KumKum mausi in lunch, we three sat out at about 4pm for HardWood Point to see the setting sun.

The place is like a goods dock (no, this picture is not trying to prove that, its from some other angle). And I am really lost on what to name this pic. I already have so many sunset pictures posted and such a poor vocab.! Well, lets call this as DOT AND LINES. (please let me know in case you want to change it!).

Biki suggested that there can be a better angle to see the setting sun. We three went a little more along the shore (of this river) and reached in a more cemented place.

From this point, we saw that at certain places, the horizon was not distinguishable. One more thing (other than these two people calculating something), the reflection of the horizontal tops of the those four 'things' are not visible, just the stands. I call this one as VOLATILES. We also had a fantastic ice cream sold with the name "Shahi Kalash" at this place. Its a must try.

That night (same menu for dinner), our discussions ranged from old teachers to cricket to hobbies to past goof ups to college to work to what not. Next morning, I woke up and Mr.P discovered this in the garden.

Please excuse this little poetry: "This group of petals are for you/Coz you make me... aaa... aaa..." Okay! forget poetry.!! Its just that one of my female friends said, after seeing this picture, "Had somebody come up to me with such a one, I would have said a YES, then and there."

Ahhhmmm... Moving on, at 10am, we three packed from Kakdwip and sat out for Bokkhali (35km south from Kakdwip). Its a beach, a really nice one (but something not marketed properly by the authorities). We went there and were regretting why we didn't have enough time.

I dont know who these little girls are, but Mr.P could not let this joy go away unnoticed. This was more or less the same expression which we three were wearing. Mr.P calls this picture WAVES AND SMILES.

The camera which Deepak has, has an option for panoramic shots. It is not there in mine. He got three to four 180 degree panorama of the beach (awesome ones!) and Mr.P managed this with the settings I had in my camera.

The day was a holiday is Bengal (Jan 23rd, birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose), so the crowd was huge. We three got inside the water but did not wet our feets more than 12 inches from the heels (I know, I too regret that!!). This is the SHORE taken by Mr.P.

After having a lunch at a very nice restaurant near the beach (and the Shahi Kalash again!), we three started for Henry Island. Here, I dont mean to do any antipublicity, but, the place is not worth more than five minutes after you have reached the top of the watch tower.
This is the view from the third floor of the watch tower, and those forest on the other side of that river are none other than the Sunderbans. Henry Island (although, its nothing like an island, its just a random location on land) is officially the STARTING POINT of the famous mangrove forests.

Well, it was about 2pm in the afternoon and we started to head back to Namkhana station. (a small 2 minute boat ride is also there to ply between Namkhana and Bokkhali which charges only 50 paisa per head for the ride!). Our Sealdah Local came on time and we three got down in three different stations and reached home perfectly on time on Sunday evening.

Please let me know if you have anything (anything at all) to say on this post.
Its a treat to read your comments :)