Back to sea level

I am now on beautiful Cherai Beach in Kerala right on the warm Arabian Sea...missing my gang at the retreat but ready to move on. It's a change to switch to traveling alone after spending almost 2 months with a large group of people. Indians are not what your would call beach people..ladies go swimming fully dressed. There are a lot of tourists in this part of Kerala, mostly Europeans who do not swim fully dressed. I am getting used to being stared at and asked my name, mostly by children who laugh hysterically when I tell them.  This is a big fishing area where some fish are still caught using Chinese nets, shown above. Not a shabby place to be at all...I send warm ocean breezes to all of you wrapped up in down at home..really! Tomorrow will be a backwater boat tour through the fresh water canals right outside my hotel...the island is like a long very narrow finger with fresh water on one side and the sea on the other.