The long awaited day of the journey had arrived. It was 6.00 AM and weather of the day was good. It took 10-15 mins to load the lagguage on both the motorbikes and we were all set to take off for the day. We began around 6.15 AM. Tarkarli beach was the only destination for the day. We had to cover approx 450 kms for the day. It was first time for Rohit to ride that much distance.
Bikes ready with lagguage loaded..
We headed towards KOLHAPUR. We stoped at NATRAJ HOTEL on the way to KHED SHIVAPUR for breakfast. This is one of my frequent breakfast place whenever i go on NH-4. This place is crowded even at early morning as all the KSRTC buses stops here. Our route to Tarkarli was
Kolhapur -> Phonda ghat, Ganganbawda-> Kankavli -> Tarkarli, Malvan.
This route was not new for me as such. Driving in Phonda ghat is awesome experience, one should try after rainy season. I had taken this route when visited GOA :). We continued our journey with few quick breaks for some snaps around.
I wanted to check my GPS about how well it works with available support on my bike. Below was my so called indian jugad GPS stand :D. This discovered adjustment was a wonderful part of journey helped me all over :). I had adjusted my mobile based GPS on my tank bag pocket. This thing worked for me Daytime, Nightime, and in rainy situation as well.. :P.
Somewhere around 10.30 we entered in the Kolhapur. Idea crossed my mind to enquire about the traffic situation as it was Ganpati Visarjan day. A localite person suggested us to pass by Rankala lake before afternoon to avoid the traffic. The person was puzzled and curiously asked us looking at our biking gears and Rohit's camera if we are some journalist covering something in kolhapur :).
We were still fresh and had to cover a long distance ahead. We had decided to take lunch break in Kankavli after covering major portion of the journey.
Some snaps on the way to Kankavli:
It was past lunch time and now we were hungry. We reached kankavli and stopped to have some food. Tarkarli is approx 60 kms from kankavli. The break gave us energy to continue our journey. There was checking going at all coastal region. we had to get down 2-3 times for checking which slowed down our speed. Around 3.30 we reached our destination Tarkarli. We could feel the change in environment. We had done our booking at a place called Tarkarli Beach Niwas, just 5 mins walking distance from the beach.
After checking in and settling ourself it was time to step on the beach. I enquired about our next day adventure activities to the hotel person. It was a great disappointment :(. Snorkling and Squba diving activites were shut down due to monsoon changes and was not going to start until November. We had to rework on our plan for next day. As it was sunset time we forget everything for the day and just enjoyed the peaceful nature and sunset. As they say this beach is less crowded and you do get serene feeling. Now the beautiful journey of konkan had begin :).
Some random pics of sunset..
We had to come back from beach as it was very dark then and we did not carry a torch We had a Konkani Veg Thali with a Surmai fish for our dinner
We had two night stay plan at this place. we had decided to cover till Vijaydurg area with the current Stay. That was lovely end of first day journey.
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