I think beach #7(radhanagar beach) is the best beach in India. It is amazing. It’s a long and flat beach. The waves form only 10 m from the shoreline, beyond that it ia a gigantic swimming pool, no turbulence at all.
It seems still water for miles. Lot of people venture for long swims. Water is very tempting here.
The coastline is lined with thick jungle with giant trees. It is a beautiful sight. Accommodation is sparse at #7, and it is expensive as well.
There is tented accommodation with tents and domes provided by Department of Tourism. Otherwise there is barefoot, which is insanely expensive. Conveyance to #7 is not a problem. Plenty of options in the form of buses, jeeps and autos are available.
Sunset is spectacular.
This is the day for diving. I have opted just for a day’s dive. It consists of two dives. Without certification it costs 4K, and with, it costs 3K. I want to see the water here and the corals. I have heard a lot about them. Last time I did diving, it was in Redang. It was amazing. I saw a sea-horse as well there. Okay, coming back to Havelock diving, at the diving spots the water is crystal clear, visibility is nothing less than 12 feets. I had gone to Light house for diving. One in shallow and the second one in open water with back-roll. This was the first time I did back-roll, it is very exciting. Immense varieties of corals can be spotted here and loadst of colorful fishes. Next time I go diving, I will try to get my certification and to learn about different type of fishes.
Apart from Light house, other remarkable spots are the Wall, the Wreck and the Elephant beach. I am sure that there would be many more still unexplored.
Young Crab
Old Crab
Nothing much for today. Tickets to Port Blair can be purchased from the jetty. It has 2 window counters. One is for Port Blair and other one is for other islands like Rangat, etc. Rangat is a good place to go if heading for Diglipur. Tickets can be purchased 3 days in advance.
Many people I met here have been traveling around the world for year and may be year and half. If I have so much time I would definitely like to spend atleast a month in Havelock. I wish I could have so much money to travel around. By rough estimates, it would cost 20000 USD to travel around the world for a year, offcourse in cheap countries. For me to save that much, I would need atleast 10 years !!! I wounder how will I go?
May be not for a year, but couple of months should be definitely possible.
We went for hiking over a hill on beach #5, opposite Nandini and Pristine resort. It was very thick green forest. At times too thick, as there was no established way to go up, we had to make our own way. Before the hill, the level fields are occupied by coconut and banana plantations. I mean really big, plantations. It had rained last night and it was wet and slippery everywhere. The forest is a typical rainforest, full of tall trees so that no part of sunlight touches the ground. Ground was filled with broken leaves and rotting fallen trees. It was a good climb and I returned with lot of leaches on my leg. Beach is never far from any place in Havelock.
We returned to Port Blair by 2PM M.V.RAMANUJAM ferry. It took 5 hrs to reach phoenix jetty. It was a big ferry and can carry more than 400 passengers all in seating positions. I will narrate a fucking frustating incidents that happened. Everyone knows that the ferry leaves at 2PM, even then the jetty gates opened only at 1:15, inspite of the fact that the ferry was stationed at the jetty since 11AM. It definitely takes more than an hour to fill in, all the passengers. Still they opened it only at 1:15. Then, imagine 400 people waiting outside the jetty for gates to be opened. And even when the gates are opened, tickets are checked at 3 places, each time a huge queue will build up within minutes. Wtf is this, is this some way to generate employment. By 2:30PM, people were still trying to settle in.
While disembarking, again it was a mayhem. Only one way to get out and that through a narrow stair, from which only 2 persons in parallel can move. Does ferry crew considers the passengers to be animals who move like a fucking heard and then get out of a narrow gate? Cant they make 2 exits for such a big ferry? So that, atleast passengers can get down safely. Elders, ladies and kids, all had to suffer this artificial crisis, only because the fucking ship crew considers them to be too busy standing and watching all this shit happening. They are to server passengers, not to make their travel miserable.
I believe this is the story only with M.V.RAMANUJAM, while traveling by M.V.PILOWMILLOW there was no such problem.
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