A trip to Tamhini Ghat in Pune

A trip to Tamhini Ghat in Pune:

Though, I am not a good traveler, I go out sometimes. Trip to Tamhini Ghat is also one among them.

It was not early in the morning. I generally don’t like to get up early during Sunday mornings. It was on Sunday.

Trip started in my friend’s Nano car along with his family. I was sitting at the rear seat.

My friend was driving Nano. There was a sudden change in the plan to include another family. He has brought his bike. All set and travel started.

As usual, we did not know the route and started asking people on the way to go to Tamhini Ghat. We could able to manage asking people in and catch the route. Right side of the road was bank of the lake...'Mushi' Lake, left side of the road was small hills... I checked the milestone for the distance between the place where we were and Tamhini. It displayed 14Km. Every milestone we crossed, I noticed on the right side of the road that, the lake was following us. It is very long... It ran into km. There was a mountain at the centre, which was covered with little bit of fog and clouds. The colour of the mountain could not be exactly seen as it was mixed with clouds. Obviously, it would have been only green color. I was amazed to see the long lake (Though lake cannot be long and it can only be large, I choose to mention long lake). There were so many sign boards on the entire stretch, mentioning not to enter the lake as the underwater currents were more. We didn't want to just see the lake, but to at least dip our leg into it. We were seeing the side of the road whether there would be any entry to lake. There was cultivation land in some place, and then followed by vacant land. But almost, most of the lake was covered with fence.

We went ahead. At last, we could able to find a way into the lake. We stopped the car. I was more excited to get into the lake. The lake water had gone little bit inside. There was a tell-tale on the surface of the ground that water had dried-up. It was showing wrinkles. I was careful when I walked on it. Though, it looked dried up, it was not so. My leg slipped. I got a firm grip and then proceeded. There were two kids. My friends' daughters. I took of the child and proceeded further. More than I was, she got excited to get into the water. Being child always makes not to fear for anything. She didn’t bother, whether there would be depth, or sudden increase in the current, or any reptiles or any other thing. She just wanted to play in the water. I also felt the same thing, but I could not proceed further than 1 foot depth of water. Growing old means, growing in all terms. People's fear towards unknown things in this, like depth of water, current etc etc also comes into place. I literally felt to stay there for a long time.

Nature makes the man happy. It keeps the man to forget his past. Aligning self towards nature is a gift.

There was couple of other view points where we spent our time and finally returned. Till the time we took U turn, it was almost 20Km from the place where lake started. But it is extending more than 20Km. Being brought from Chennai, it is difficult for people like us to see clean water bodies at Chennai. Place like Tamhini ghat and the water bodies in the way really make me to admire nature and the creator of all these things.

We are nothing in front of Mother Nature. She is the best.