… If we have no time to stand and stare.

(My father in law himself chose the caption for this picture)

I had to get in waist deep ocean water to get this picture just as the wave crested around Nikita. One particular wave snuck back up on me and almost destroyed my camera. Managed to lift the camera up just at the nick of the moment.

Father in law and myself went walking down the beach. The sun came out quietly behind the torn apart clouds. The waves kept falling on each other, completely unaware of the new beginning….

After the whole day on the beach, took my mother in law back to the beach at 9PM. There were a large number of fireworks going on. There were people with splendid fireworks every 200 yards or so on the beach.

My mother in law was suitably impressed with the amount of fireworks, the brilliance of the fireworks (she has seen nothing like this before) and above all the enthusiasm of American citizens in celebrating the Independence Day.

After forty five minutes, she started her slow walk on the sand back to the hotel. She stopped in between, look up to the hotel – which was less than thirty yards away – and said disapprovingly of the Marriott Vacation hotel “era thik korlo na. chhade tuni-bulb laagatey paarto”

🙂