Saturday, June 20, 2009

Lucky dips in Laccadives ....













It was a lovely day .... warm breezes caressing me, blowing over me, the fluttering in my heart, the churning in my stomach ... arousing in me the feeling of being re-juvenated.... its a whole new world. Sitting on the shore, watching the calm Arabian Sea drooling and lapping at my feet, making me feel like the Queen of the Oceans.










Its was raining torrentially but the water encompassed me with the warmth of being in the womb once again .... The feeling of being so protected, from the cool temperature outside. I ducked into the water ... crystal clear water, I could see the corals lying at the bottom of the sea-floor. I was in the full scuba gear, I could touch the little fish scuttling here and there. A big fish stared at me with all the wonder of a little baby looking at a new oragnism. I felt as if i was at the top of the world, even though I was like 20ft below the sea level. It was marvellous. colors like blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink flew past me.... I could see a tiny Nemo down below..... i reach for it, it scampers away.... touch the sea-cucumber, its slippery. The scuba guide asks me not to, it might be poisonous.... I am repelled by the thought of 'resting with the fishes' ..... I am lovin it. :)




It was lovely, the sun was setting over the ocean. I wanted to catch the last rays as they disappeared over the horizon, sitting with my camera, ready, since 4pm, I finally had the best shots of my life.... As Ra dropped slowly in a lazy motion, I was mesmerized by the resolute nature of the Sun, to disappear in the huge bowl, just like a goldfish, spreading its fins in a last effort to get in to the realms..... It was a monumentous time in my life ... "it is the time of my life" ..... like a protozoan, amoebic in tendency, splitting into tendrils of its original self and holding on ......




We all hold on.........




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