Gelfs Own

Country

( gulf that iis how it is pronounced in Kerala and it is every other youths aspiration to head to gelf and make it big)

Having been to gulf’s own country (pronounced as gelf) for couple of days one thing is really evident the gelf’s economy has actually helped upkeep the Wynad’s pristine forest and the ecology at large!! And it seems this part of the country looks so different from the others with good roads (I am talking about monsoons heartlands) dotted with small towns, well defined neo aesthetics buildings that have good mix of contemporary and traditionalism merging in to the plantation landscape. Very courteous people better informed, they know the importance of their place!! By and large Wynad has a unique climes and fertile land mass; here you can see coconut trees and high altitude tea bush side by side.

Taking about places we went around in Kallpetta which
was an ancient Jain Settlement there is an old Jain Temple here. And about the ancient ways there is a 6000 year old rock art craving site Edakal Caves – The ASI is on excavation here, on what is supposedly a natural cave formed due to an earthquake, with a gaping fissure pegged above by a huge rock boulder hence the name EDAKAL (roughly the centre stone) there is a huge flat face crevice adjacent to this carving site, if your adventurous knees love to crawl and your head can defy some degree of vertigo (we had both) you can climb the rock face above this cave (they have erected ladders and ropeways at inaccessible patches) the view from the top is awesome and worth a climb, having said that the climb is easier then the decent cause it is a near vertical face so you would be facing steep gorge down below - sounds dizzy. Coming to the Wynad’s famed diversity what remains are clumps of island forest diversity due to thriving plantation and resort clamoring’s nonetheless these islands are protected, what we where at loss was the invincible Chembra Peak that we wanted to climb (due to forest fire the permission’s were denied)

Photos- first one shot in the Edakal caves.
Second one shot on the peak above of the cave

Mile Stone for every ONE

AAhhhh! An old mile stone pillar that you will seldom see these days

Look how far Coonoor is from Ooty - 11 miles (it is 18km) an old milestone withered its times still looking cute and better of then all those iron n sheet fabricated direction boards that has come and gone, few still jutting out like rusted gardeners blade stalking the bystanders!

Shot at St Stephan Church gate.Ooty

Now my personal milestone of all the days I counted out of my ever decreasing formative years spent iridescently on myriad self imposed miseries now I am desperately seeking directions a meaningful one at that.

Hence these milestone (the literal one) of the New Year signify the threshold to take guard on a different wicket, to scoff at the posterity, and to augustly welcome the days ahead of me to accomplish all that I set out to achieve.

Wishing every one out there with the vision for 

2008 a

Happy and Prosperous year to come

Ya here we come.