Thrills for free

Sunday evening and there's a buzz of energy all around. The families washing and drying their clothes, bathing their children at the tiny pockets of water between the rocks. The couples that have claimed their space for romance. The foreign tourist who is venturing out with her DSLR towards the waves. All others who choose the comfort of the promenade over the unevenness of the rocks. Clicking fake pictures with their IPads, digital cameras, DSLRs and mobile phones. An elderly man tries to capture his wife through his iPad and is driving her all over the place for a perfect shot. There is litter around and we have left it there, we're comfortable with it and it is part of our scene. All of this is me.

Picture Perfect Pawana

Photo Courtesy: Vasant Salian

She makes it seem as easy as breathing. Fearless and fourteen she wades off without a sound, except for that of our egos shattering with shame. Each one secretly knows the apprehensions they hold inside.

Snapping from this humbling realisation we swiftly hop into the kayaks. Straight out of a movie, except its real. Reflection of the setting sun, silhouette of blue mountains, storks flying...an experience so serene that we'd rather tire rowing than turn back.

'Right is left and left is right' were the instructions to row. And we quickly figured it out just to experience the awesomeness of lake Pawana.