Quite heavy rains today after a sunny day yesterday. We managed a long walk on the beach, in the rain, with the whole beach to ourselves. Cavelossim beach is like a white-sand version Waikanae. But without the wind, cold and pine trees. It is long and wide and very clean. We finished our walk with a swim and goodness me a lifesavcr came out of the trees to watch us! There are lifesaver stations the length of the beach, every 500m or so. Quite an impressive service in the middle of a monsoon downpour.
Craig’s just bug sprayed our motorbikes. Instead of street dogs taking refuge on our bikes from the rains...it is red nippy ants!
A few more shops opened up today - I think this place will be much more lively in 10 days time.
We’ve lived on fish since we arrived. Quite a nice change from the full vegetarian diet of Rajashtan. The fish and prawns are yum! Fresh from the sea and cooked on sizzling platters with a few veges. Craig has discovered hanging chicken! Crazy too - these meals are all under $10.
Craig at Fisherman’s Wharf
Fishing village
We are on to our 3rd hit by credit card fraudsters. We have hardly even used the cards as we arrived with USD in cash. So - the hit rate on us is high. Thank goodness for the Westpac fraud team. They’ve picked up each episode before we even noticed. Sarah is bringing our new cards over but we’ve started using our Onesmart card as all the others have been cancelled. Not sure if just bad luck or there is some breach on Booking.com or one of the other sites we have been regularly using. Bit of a pain really.
We have booked a 2 bedroom villa for when Sarah arrives. Across the path from our current villa. It is 10 steps from the pool! We managed to negotiate a price outside of the usual booking companies so was much cheaper...$88 for the 3 of us. Comes with a lovely cleaner and all the other mod cons one needs on holiday.
Quite different scenery compared to Leh!
We are tiki touring again tomorrow. Going inland to a waterfall. We rode inland an hour to Salaulim Dam a couple of days ago. It was a beautiful ride through lush rice paddies, coconut palm forests and little villages. Whenever the rain got too heavy we just pulled into a cafe or bus stop, and like the locals waited it out until the rains slowed. The dam was impressive - a huge lake flows into a vortex type dam system . The pictures don’t really show the power of the pull down the ‘drain’ into the shutes and turbines. I’ve never seen anything like it. The lee side of the dam has been made into a botanical gardens.
Kathmandu ponchos coming in handy
This is us sheltering in a church doorway fromt the rain. Figured it was okay - we are friends with Tricia and Tony McK!
The vortex...like a sci-fi movie where you are transported to another world.
Cards - we have remembered how to play Uka. It is so nice sitting on our porch each evening. No people around, no tooting horns, no wind, just crickets and us.
Craig’s just bug sprayed our motorbikes. Instead of street dogs taking refuge on our bikes from the rains...it is red nippy ants!
A few more shops opened up today - I think this place will be much more lively in 10 days time.
We’ve lived on fish since we arrived. Quite a nice change from the full vegetarian diet of Rajashtan. The fish and prawns are yum! Fresh from the sea and cooked on sizzling platters with a few veges. Craig has discovered hanging chicken! Crazy too - these meals are all under $10.
Craig at Fisherman’s Wharf
Fishing villageWe are on to our 3rd hit by credit card fraudsters. We have hardly even used the cards as we arrived with USD in cash. So - the hit rate on us is high. Thank goodness for the Westpac fraud team. They’ve picked up each episode before we even noticed. Sarah is bringing our new cards over but we’ve started using our Onesmart card as all the others have been cancelled. Not sure if just bad luck or there is some breach on Booking.com or one of the other sites we have been regularly using. Bit of a pain really.
We have booked a 2 bedroom villa for when Sarah arrives. Across the path from our current villa. It is 10 steps from the pool! We managed to negotiate a price outside of the usual booking companies so was much cheaper...$88 for the 3 of us. Comes with a lovely cleaner and all the other mod cons one needs on holiday.
Quite different scenery compared to Leh! We are tiki touring again tomorrow. Going inland to a waterfall. We rode inland an hour to Salaulim Dam a couple of days ago. It was a beautiful ride through lush rice paddies, coconut palm forests and little villages. Whenever the rain got too heavy we just pulled into a cafe or bus stop, and like the locals waited it out until the rains slowed. The dam was impressive - a huge lake flows into a vortex type dam system . The pictures don’t really show the power of the pull down the ‘drain’ into the shutes and turbines. I’ve never seen anything like it. The lee side of the dam has been made into a botanical gardens.
Kathmandu ponchos coming in handy
This is us sheltering in a church doorway fromt the rain. Figured it was okay - we are friends with Tricia and Tony McK! 
The vortex...like a sci-fi movie where you are transported to another world.Cards - we have remembered how to play Uka. It is so nice sitting on our porch each evening. No people around, no tooting horns, no wind, just crickets and us.
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