Incredible Konkan bike trip part 1
Towards Anjanvel lightouse:
Album pic
From Dabhol jetty we rode towards Anjanvel gaon. And from there a road goes to the left towards a small village.
Boat at Dabhol Jetty
Boat reflections
At Dabhol jetty
I believe this brings lots of memories for many of us !
Captured
A boy caught catching fish in the river :)
Old river bridge
En route lies the controversial ENRON power plant.
Enron power plantAfter the village a kuttcha road on the left takes you to Anjanvel lighthouse.
Anjanvel lighthouse.:
Light house is at the end of the plateau. Gates leading towards the lighthouse was closed.
I waited outside with bike and luggage and Vishwanath went inside and returned with the good news.
For the information almost all the Lighthouses remains open only from 3PM - 5PM. And we were there around 4:15 PM.
Took my bike inside and parked it there. The place seemed deserted and but it was nicely maintained.
Compound had beautiful flowers blooming. But keeper was nowhere there.
I was wondering whom did Vishwanath talked to.
Yellow field outside lighthouse
Grass macro
Scenery outside Dabhol lightouse
Flower inside the lighthouse garden
Lamp post inside the lighthouse
A man came out from inside a small cottage where I was busy with my camera. And he started yelling 'Maine sirf tum dono ko andar aane bola tha, bike kisne bola andar laane ke liye. jao bahar park karo bike'
Now I found this completely illogical and I didn't gave him a look and continued with my camera.
He repeated again in a more harsh tone.
Giving a hard look for his arrogance, pushed my bike on the man built small interlock pathway running towards the gate. And parked outside.
For this I had to untie all the luggage and carry with me.
An old man came out from another cottage dressed in ganji and took some sort of Fireman like shirt from the hanger and asked how many were we.
We said 'Two'. 'Ok' he said 'Rs.20/each'. Handed him the money and walked behind him upwards in the lighthouse.
Small narrow stairs lead you to a small round closed room with a machinery painted green in the middle and lots of prism glass at the height of eyes.
Multiple batteries and other electrical gadgets were lying in the left corner.
He started explaining the working of lighthouse and that every lighthouse has a fixed frequency at which prism rotates. 3 bulb in the center emits light surrounded by 3 set of big prism glass. At the same time it keeps on rotating thus emitting 3 beam of light in one minute.
Now this is the code that fisherman uses to locate Dabhol. Lighthouse in the night can be spotted from 30KM in the sea.
Dabhol lighthouse
Prism lens inside the lighthouse
From that small room through a mini door came out to see the amazing sea-view.
Sea view from lighthouse. Apparatus in the small tower ahead is RADAR
The Lone farer
From Dabhol lighthouse
Lighthouse tower
It was good learning session for us.
Packed our stuffs and continued towards Guhagar our last spot for the day.
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