MAR 22, 16 .. GOA .. ARAMBOL BEACH .. PATTI ..

AND THIS ONE.. THIS ONE IS FOR YOU.. PATTI..

After a very long absence ..

I am now going to return to our trip together to Arambol Beach at the Northern end of the Indian State of Goa. I want to start out with the below photo just for Patti. When I snapped the below photo back in mid-November of 2011 I wished that Patti was with me in Goa to share the wonders of Arambol Beach. 

HERE WE GO.. another HUGE ADVENTURE IS DAWNING.. so hang on and ENJOY THE RIDE.. 

Patti is with me on this trip ..

Amazing .. Patti is on the phone talking to a friend in Anchorage Alaska U.S.A.

Crank it up Captain .. Here we go loop de loop .. In Arambol Beach in Goa ..

To get yourselves reoriented and back into our India trip you may want to revisit the below post.

http://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2016/02/feb-27-16-wandering-streets-of-my-mind.html

If you will take the time to scroll down the above post I hope that it will help to put-you-into-the-mood to see more of our visit to India from December the 31st 2015 to February the 18th 2016.

With Joy .. Cap 

SEP 10, 13 .. MISSING GOA BIG TIME !

I can not believe that some of you continue to 'check-in' here at my Google blogspot Bobba Caps Doxology web site when I have been totally inactive for weeks-at-a-time!  I seem to be averaging one-post-per month lately!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOYALTY!

IF any of you are also following me over at Baba Kaps Doxology you know that on August 1st and August 8th I had cataract eye-surgery on my right and my left eyes.  All the details are there at Baba Kaps Doxology and I won't bore you further here with them except to say that this eye-surgery really laid-me-out in many aspects of my day-to-day life.

Onward!  I want to post some of my photos of Goa .. the Indian State on the West Coast of India located South of Mumbai or .. as-you-like .. Bombay.  They were taken from November 14th 2011 into early January of 2012.

OH MUMTAZ!  YES MUMTAZ!  We all still love you so very much.  It is nice to see you again Mumtaz.

OK .. let me post a few of my Goa photos.

I do not have one-single-clue as to why Blogspot will NOT allow me to print the below photos in size large .. see the above photo of the Taj Mahal!  This having been written .. 

Now see my comment at the end of the Post below. **

There you have a few photos of Goa.  I hope they bring back nice memories of my 2011-2012 trip to India ..

Smiles .. Cap

** Comment: My Webmistress Gullible got on-line and enlarged the above photographs which were previously small.

  

THANK YOU GULLIBLE! 

JAN 9, 12 .. GOA .. ARAMBOL BEACH ..

 ONE FINAL GOODBYE TO ARAMBOL BEACH ..

THANKS .. FOR THE MEMORIES .. OH LITTLE CHAPEL .. DAILY .. I WALKED PAST YOU AND SMILED AT YOU AND JUST COMMUNED WITH YOU .. OH YES .. I WILL MISS YOU ..  AND I WILL MISS SEEING THE FRESH FLOWERS THAT ADORNED YOUR CROSS ..

 HIDDEN AWAY .. WELL OFF THE MAIN ROAD .. VISIBLE TO THOSE OF US LIVING IN YOUR SHADOW ..

 OH SO SIMPLE .. OH SO PLAIN .. OH SO VERY VERY ELEGANT ..

 WHEN SOMEONE IN THE VILLAGE WOULD PASS AWAY .. IN THE EVENING .. THE BELL IN THE CHAPEL TOWER WOULD BE TOLLED .. IT WAS SOBERING TO HEAR WHEN IT TOLLED ..

JAN 9, 12 .. GOA .. ARAMBOL BEACH ..

THANKS .. FOR THE MEMORIES .. OH BOB HOPE .. I CAN JUST HEAR YOU SING YOUR SONG .. 

SOME FINAL MEMORIES OF ARAMBOL BEACH IN NORTH GOA .. INDIA ..

My last morning on the beach .. looking due North in the morning mist ..

And looking due South on the beach ..

  And ? .. looking due West on the beach .. 

 WITHOUT MY LIFEGUARD STATION AS MY ONE MAJOR LANDMARK .. I may have gotten lost on the beach at Arambol and never been heard from again .. looking North and East ..

 Looking due East .. my apartment is in the distance as you look to the extreme left of the photo out in the distance ..

 Looking South and East ..

Looking .. from a distance .. North and East ..

  And below .. the morning catch-from-the-sea ..is underway ..

Mornings like the last one above in Arambol Beach .. are what I LOVE about India ..

JAN 8, 12 .. GOA .. ARAMBOL BEACH ..

Talk about being busy .. go to ..  babakaps.net ..  web site for a lot of text about what is happening ..


You have good and you have bad .. you have happy and you have sad .. and when I left Arambol Beach in Goa I was a 'little sad' because I did NOT get to say goodbye to a special friend and his wife .. 

My second day in Arambol Beach .. I heard this absolutely 'haunting music' coming from my next door neighbor .. I was absolutely transfixed .. and .. with cell phone in hand and with Patti connected .. I followed the music to my neighbors .. and I followed the music up their front steps to the second floor .. and I followed the music into their home .. and this absolutely wonderful couple invited me in .. and the lady-of-the-house took me to the source of the music and I put my cell phone up against the speaker .. the lady-of-the-house graciously provided me with the name of the CD.. by Deuter .. titled .. Garden of the Gods .. Patti got a copy and has a second one on order .. they have given to Patti and to me an invaluable gift of this special music .. and I did NOT say good-bye NOR THANK THEM AGAIN profusely.. I was very SAD .. so I planned to write them a thank you ..

I told Patti .. as I was waiting for my bus from Arambol Village to Pernem last Wednesday .. January the 4th .. MAYBE Tom will come past me on his motorcycle so I can THANK TOM AND HIS WIFE..    

W H A T ! !

 HOW .. will YOU tell me .. HOW does this sort of thing happen .. I think it and TOM APPEARS ..

Mister 'Music Man' .. Tom was a drummer on the beach at Arambol at sunset .. and was so friendly and supportive of me during my seven weeks in Goa .. I put Patti on the cell phone and she got to thank Tom as well ..

JAN 2, 12 .. GOA .. ARAMBOL BEACH ..

In addition to my walk from my apartment into the Arambol Beach business district and back to my apartment .. which I have chronicled in detail in FWIW..  101 and 102 .. and in FWIW.. 107 and 108 .. my second most prominent walk of some distance is from my apartment to the Post Office and return to my apartment .. in the below photos and continuing into FWIW..  127 .. I want to show you what the walk FROM the Post Office back to my apartment looks like.. the below photo shows you what the END of the walk from my apartment to the Post Office looks like.. make a right at the intersection and the Post Office is on your left ..

Now go straight ahead .. cross the street .. turn around 180 degrees .. and you see what I have shown in the below photo .. NOTICE in the distance straight ahead Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church and to the right below the school .. and notice the sign to Arambol Beach since in the below photo technically we are in Arambol Village .. 

Now we are at the Church and will bend to the left to follow the road  .. sometimes .. actually quite  often .. I will walk straight and go up the driveway and past the church .. often I will stop and sit in Mount Carmel Garden which I have photographed several times for you all.. 

A little jog left below and then a little jog right in the next photo ..

Now the little jog to the right ..

And after we bend to our right at the end of this short curve around the church .. straight on down the road we will go ..

Looking down the road .. if you really strain to see it  .. to the left will be the sign you see in photo 8 below .. once you see it in photo 8 .. maybe you can come back to the below photo and .. knowing what you are looking for.. spot it below .. it is right where the road bends slightly to the right ..

I will write about the below photo in FWIW..  127..  I am showing it twice to enable you to transition more easily from this post down to FWIW.. 127 ..

The walk from my apartment door to the door of the Post Office takes me from 11 minutes to 15 minutes .. totally depending upon how hard I want to push the pace I walk along at .. 

JAN 2, 12 .. GOA .. ARAMBOL BEACH ..

OK.. coming down from FWIW..  128.. above .. I have repeated the below photo so you don't have to jump back up to FWIW..  128 .. to re-orient yourself below ..

Notice the sign prominent on the left side of the photo ..  it is a BIG DEAL to have laundry done with a Washing Machine .. many places do it by hand  .. what we take for granted .. now we walk straight up the road to the white building in the middle of the below photo .. and turn left and shoot the second photo below .. 

Walking further along the road we come to the white building shown above and on the right edge of the below photo .. above the road in the far distance is a yellow Yoga sign hanging above the road .. we will see it in the third photo below ..

Below is our yellow Yoga sign above the road  .. our next landmark is the blue tarp over a frame you can see in the distance up the road .. go left here below and you get to Magic Park Restaurant I have written about and photographed .. one of my favorite restaurants ..

OK .. there is our blue tarp 'roof' .. on the right of the below photo .. these little 'shops' are just thrown together with bamboo poles and tarps .. a strong wind and they would all blow away !

There is no real landmark in the distance in the above photo so we just walked forward down the road .. and here we are .. see the prominent sign .. on the left .. HAPPY BABA .. well this is where I turn to my left and begin the walk to my apartment that I have chronicled in FWIW.. 108.. straight ahead in the beloe photo is the 90 degree right turn to go into the main part of Arambol Beach ..  see FWIW..  101..  photo 7 .. NOW in photo 6 below we turn left and look up the walkway we have walked up before ..

To the bottom right of the below photo you can clearly see the HAPPY BABA sign shown above .. just maybe the pink building at the end looks familiar to you from FWIW..  108 .. now do you see the 'land mine' on the ground to the right edge of the path .. I talked about it above in FWIW.. 108.. photos 1 and 2 ..well I got a GOOD CLOSE UP OF IT on this walk and you will see it in the last photo below .. 

Mister India Hat was SO happy to be out for a walk with me on this trip .. he loved posing with the old tree stump in the below photo ..

I MEAN IF YOU STEP IN THIS IN THE DARK .. OR TRIP OVER IT IN THE DARK.. you could REALLY HURT YOURSELF .. IF I lived here I would get an axe and remove it and level it off .. it is a real LAND MINE .. and it is BIG ..  even scooters and motorcycles who run up this path need to beware of it .. hey .. maybe it is meant to be a NATURAL SPEED BUMP .. 

JAN 2, 12 .. GOA .. ARAMBOL BEACH ..

I went 'mountain climbing' some more to get you some additional photos from 'high up' above Arambol Beach .. and to show you a special monument I have not shown you before .. so here we go .. the first two photos below are of two business establishments at the extreme north end of the main beach at Arambol Beach .. immediately below is the 'Eyes of Buddha' .. I was sitting in this restaurant drinking water to cool off from climbing the mountain behind it .. and the most 'haunting' Buddhist music was playing in the background .. so I telephoned Patti to let her hear the music and promised her a photo of the place she listened to it ..

Below is the 'Blue Fin' .. a guest house next to the 'Eyes of Buddha" at the extreme end of the main beach at Arambol Beach .. what I want you to see is the white monument visible at the top right edge of the hill and the skyline behind the 'Blue Fin' .. I climbed up the 'mounntain' to get more photos of it up close ..

To give you more perspective .. the  below photo is taken after walking further south after shooting  the above two photos .. in the below photo look straight ahead in the middle of the photo along the skyline at the top of the photo .. you can 'make out' the monument shown at the top of photo 2 above .. do you see it ? .. toward the lower left of the below photo you can see the sign for the 'Eyes of Buddha' shown in photo 1 above .. to shoot photo 4 down one photo from below .. I walked straight forward to the base of the building you are looking at below .. and looking up .. shot photo 4 between  the coconut palm trees ..

OK .. using the 'telephoto' capacity of my sweet little Nikon COOLPIX S4100 (and yet AGAIN .. thank you ALL at 48073 '1616' ..) .. I shot the below photo of the monument aiming my camera up between the coconut palm trees above the restaurant and guest house you see above ..

 Now we are talking a short 15 to 20 minute 'WALK' up the 'mountain' or small hill .. depending on your age and stamina .. man alive I am not what I was twenty years ago .. BUT hey .. not bad for age 75 either is it ? .. standing right at the base of the monument I shot the below photo ... BEING sure I did not lose my balance (see photo 6 below this photo) and 'topple backwards' .. DOWN the 'mountain' .. you KNOW I got my balance and my footing just right ! .. stunning .. Goan Blue Sky .. whew !

Now I walked around to the north side and shot the below two photos facing south from up above the main Beach at Arambol .. I like the below photo with the monument shown in profile .. do you all see WHAT I MEAN ABOUT NOT WANTING TO LOSE MY BALANCE AND TOPPLE BACKWARDS ? ..

And below is another shot looking south down the main beach at Arambol Beach .. I mean to TELL THE WORLD .. Lisa and Bert and Trudi SURE GOT ME TO THE RIGHT BEACH in Goa for me to be situated at ..

And lastly .. fair IS fair .. at the top of this 'mountain' hill is also a sweet little Hindi Monument .. it stands to the west of the Christian Monument shown above ..

After shooting these photos .. I then walked north and eventually came to the point where I previously had taken photos down upon Sweet Water Beach and Lake .. I was wondering IF I would be able to do this .. as I said above .. when back safely down .. I NEEDED to rest and to drink water ..

JAN 1, 12 .. GOA .. ARAMBOL BEACH ..

Down below in December 27, 2011 .. I show you some photos of some special shops here in Arambol Beach .. some of my favorites .. 


I had NOT taken a photo of another of my favorites because it so DEEPLY TOUCHES ME.. but today.. January the 1st.. the shop and I were in 'synch' and I shot the below photos .. FIRST look straight into the shop and notice the stairs in the back .. these stairs lead up to a home or a room .. a place people are living .. a very ELDERLY lady attends this MODEST tiny shop fashioned together at the bottom of her stairs with bamboo poles and tarps .. and she seems to be SCRATCHING OUT A MODEST LIVING .. selling very few items.. I strive to give her my business when I can .. I mean she has NO inventory .. just a few little tid-bits of snacks ..

This photo looks at the side of her tiny little shop .. in the below photo.. on the right side of it.. look closely and you will see the stairs leading up to a room .. I mean this tiny little 'shop' is hodge-podge patched together with gum and masking tape IF that ..

The little boy seems to be a grandson .. I have not the nerve to ask her any questions about her little shop .. I just smile at her and give her what business I can .. 

Maybe I can talk to her and ask her IF it is her shop .. IF it is .. I am tempted to slip her a thousand rupees .. whew !  .. this scene is played out daily all over India .. little people scratching out a living however and where ever they are able .. study the look on the face of the little boy .. I mean he IS SERIOUS about what it is he is doing .. the little boy seems to be 'playing' as children will do.. making up a game as he goes along .. or maybe he is oh-so-very carefully 'organizing' the soda bottles hoping it will help to sell just one .. I will utter it again .. whew ! .. notice at his feet .. a 'soda bottle' just beside the tiny display case .. this is an EMPTY water bottle filled with gasoline to sell to motor scooter owners who need a 'fill up' .. whew ! .. I will NOT say this is what I love about India .. I WILL SAY THIS .. scenes like this are what SO DEEPLY TOUCH MY SOUL here in India ..