Dapoli – Beauty of Konkan (Part 1)
We office friends were thinking of having one day stay trip from long time. Whenever we started to think of having trip, Goa is the destination used to pop up in our mind and we all used to get lost in dreams about what fun we all can have in Goa. One day we were having less (or you can say No as always :p ) work at office and we started thinking of trip again and this time we all were little serious, being practical about days having in our hand we first thought of Mahabaleshwar, then Matheran, then Tarkarli and finally one of our friend came up with idea Dapoli which is quite near to Mumbai and peaceful beach. We google some pics of Dapoli and the pics which we saw were really awesome and the main thing attracted us is ‘Dolphin Safari’. Yes we can see dolphins in Dapoli beach early morning. Hearing that we all were excited and finally decided to go for Dapoli.
Next milestone is of travel dates, after having number of round of discussions we finalised the dates. Then we started surfing for the hotel/resort for stay, we then found one good beach resort and after having discussion with resort guys over call we booked the rooms. Now next thing was how to travel, everyone giving their ideas of travelling by train, private bus, and state transport bus and at last we finalise private vehicle almost the day before travelling which turn out to be convenient.
We hired Tavera, two of our friends were working in Malad so first both of them boarded the vehicle from Malad then other friend from Goregaon and finally 5 of us joined them in Juinagar railway station. We started from Juinagar around 11 PM. I was carrying cards so to pass the time, 6 of us started playing cards, one of our favourite game Mendhi coat. For Dapoli we have to take Goa road NH17 which starts after crossing Panvel. Goa road is good to drive with some exceptions at Pen and wadkhal naka where some potholes on road will break your speed. Around 1 AM near Karnala our driver took first halt for his dinner. Main adventure started after that. Our driver started closing his eyes while driving and our friend sitting next to him realises this and he took the job to keep his eye open by poking him all the time. Then we took the next stop for the tea near Nagothane but still our driver was not freshen up by that. After crossing Mangaon we have to take exit from NH17 near Veer Railway station for Dapoli. Before that our driver parked the car nearby one small dhaba present on highway for nap as he was feeling too sleepy to drive. Meantime we all again started photography on that Dhaba at around 3.30 AM. We can start taking snaps at any time at any location that is our speciality. We also witnessed one small accident where one truck were taking reverse and he bammed the other truck parked and then little funny argument between both drivers around 4 AM. After 1 hour of nap also our driver was not ready to go ahead so finally we decided to wake him up and asked him to lets go as we don’t wanted to miss early morning Dolphin Safari.
We started our journey once again. We took right turn as per the sign board but believe me its better if we continue NH17 till Khed and then take right turn because thinking this will be a shortcut its actually bumping journey as road was not so good. We touched the Dapoli at around 7 AM but journey is not yet over as the Murud beach where our resort is located was around 14-15 Km form Dapoli. We asked local guys for how to go to Murud. Asking direction at each turn finally our Tavera came in front of huge blue, breath taking view of Arabian Sea. We were on the beach and everyone got fresh by just view of this nature beauty. We asked one of the local guy on beach about our resort address. It was just nearby. Before going to resort we could not hold our self back and we just had walk on beach, we also saw the boat taking tourist for Dolphin Safari, then we started some early morning photography and then went to resort reception to find that still no one is there so we decided to freshen up first and then had breakfast in one of the snack centre present on beach and then we all geared up for our main attraction of the trip ‘Dolphin Safari’.
We office friends were thinking of having one day stay trip from long time. Whenever we started to think of having trip, Goa is the destination used to pop up in our mind and we all used to get lost in dreams about what fun we all can have in Goa. One day we were having less (or you can say No as always :p ) work at office and we started thinking of trip again and this time we all were little serious, being practical about days having in our hand we first thought of Mahabaleshwar, then Matheran, then Tarkarli and finally one of our friend came up with idea Dapoli which is quite near to Mumbai and peaceful beach. We google some pics of Dapoli and the pics which we saw were really awesome and the main thing attracted us is ‘Dolphin Safari’. Yes we can see dolphins in Dapoli beach early morning. Hearing that we all were excited and finally decided to go for Dapoli.
Next milestone is of travel dates, after having number of round of discussions we finalised the dates. Then we started surfing for the hotel/resort for stay, we then found one good beach resort and after having discussion with resort guys over call we booked the rooms. Now next thing was how to travel, everyone giving their ideas of travelling by train, private bus, and state transport bus and at last we finalise private vehicle almost the day before travelling which turn out to be convenient.
We hired Tavera, two of our friends were working in Malad so first both of them boarded the vehicle from Malad then other friend from Goregaon and finally 5 of us joined them in Juinagar railway station. We started from Juinagar around 11 PM. I was carrying cards so to pass the time, 6 of us started playing cards, one of our favourite game Mendhi coat. For Dapoli we have to take Goa road NH17 which starts after crossing Panvel. Goa road is good to drive with some exceptions at Pen and wadkhal naka where some potholes on road will break your speed. Around 1 AM near Karnala our driver took first halt for his dinner. Main adventure started after that. Our driver started closing his eyes while driving and our friend sitting next to him realises this and he took the job to keep his eye open by poking him all the time. Then we took the next stop for the tea near Nagothane but still our driver was not freshen up by that. After crossing Mangaon we have to take exit from NH17 near Veer Railway station for Dapoli. Before that our driver parked the car nearby one small dhaba present on highway for nap as he was feeling too sleepy to drive. Meantime we all again started photography on that Dhaba at around 3.30 AM. We can start taking snaps at any time at any location that is our speciality. We also witnessed one small accident where one truck were taking reverse and he bammed the other truck parked and then little funny argument between both drivers around 4 AM. After 1 hour of nap also our driver was not ready to go ahead so finally we decided to wake him up and asked him to lets go as we don’t wanted to miss early morning Dolphin Safari.
We started our journey once again. We took right turn as per the sign board but believe me its better if we continue NH17 till Khed and then take right turn because thinking this will be a shortcut its actually bumping journey as road was not so good. We touched the Dapoli at around 7 AM but journey is not yet over as the Murud beach where our resort is located was around 14-15 Km form Dapoli. We asked local guys for how to go to Murud. Asking direction at each turn finally our Tavera came in front of huge blue, breath taking view of Arabian Sea. We were on the beach and everyone got fresh by just view of this nature beauty. We asked one of the local guy on beach about our resort address. It was just nearby. Before going to resort we could not hold our self back and we just had walk on beach, we also saw the boat taking tourist for Dolphin Safari, then we started some early morning photography and then went to resort reception to find that still no one is there so we decided to freshen up first and then had breakfast in one of the snack centre present on beach and then we all geared up for our main attraction of the trip ‘Dolphin Safari’.
Mayuresh
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