Having had a fabulous time on the beach (minus the cuts), decided to do another “beachy” day. This time we were careful to choose a good beach to swim in.
We did choose well & had such a good time that it won my Pick of the Holiday Award!
We decided on the beautiful & comparitively secluded beach of Utorda which is waaay down in the South of Goa. The beach is seven kilometers from the north of Colva, towards the north is Arrosim and towards the south is Majorda Beach.
What really impressed us as we drove all the way from the North to the South of Goa was the wonderful countryside. The coconut trees. The buffalows in the fields. The scarecrows. The quaint homes. The churches. Enough to take one’s breath away. The phirangs among us clicked picture after picture, pretty trigger happy.
Utorda beach was everything we could want in a beach. There were hardly any people and there were miles and miles of clear white sand and blue sea for swimming in. We also managed to catch a couple of waves. The Ozzies of course, thought we were nuts and we should go by Bondi (or was that Coogee?) to see what real waves are.
Anyway crazy Ozzies & Americans aside, I decided to get some adventure sports. Was pretty dissapointed at not having done any the previous day & decided that come what may, I was going to take to the skies 
Not everyone was highly enthu though - Geh pretty much lounged & read a book the whole time & most of the others just continued swimming in the water. I think Ana got a little high in the water and was leading imaginary ochestras and other sorts of insane things in the water 
Resh & Vi though took a jet ski out by themselves. And after that (when the wind was right) Resh, Ana & I went parasailing!!!
I so totally loved it. It was just for a minute but was so amazing to be up in the air and looking down at the scenery like a bird! Oh I could honestly have stayed up for a long long time. Decided at that point I was going to marry a guy who owned a parasailing company
Of course, if you saw the type of guys selling the parasailing to us, you’d know why I didn’t go through with it
Had lunch on an amazing shack by the beach. We initially considered Martin’s or Zeebops (which were close by) but decided to do local as it’s so much more fun! Lunch was great. The waiter showed us some amazing fish on a platter and we pretty much chose all of it.
Unfortunately it tooks hours to get ready - “everything’s fresh sir” - and we realised we should have probably ordered in advance while still lounging on the beach. Goa hasn’t heard of the fast food concept. But it was all amazing.
The Americans had flights home that day, so we say our goodbyes (very sadly acknoeledging that the trip was already half done) to them. We came home on our bus, stomachs full & most of us fast asleep.
We didn’t really want to do anything in the night - the original plan was to go to Club Cubana (which apparently has the most happening party of the year there on the 30th of Dec) but everyone was pretty tired out from the long trip down South & back & from all our beaching.
Finally decided to do Cubana for New Year’s and just go out for dinner. Ended up at ‘Viva Panjim’ which had not only the best fish I’ve tasted on the entire trip but also was in a pretty little lane, all decorated and all Christmassy.
Eric was the happiest of the bunch as (for a while) he was the solitary man among the lot. Came home happy and content that we had a great meal.
I unfortunately did not get any sleep though I wanted to, as I had to stay up for DV (who had gone to Club Cubana with other friends) and also for some of the lot - who decided to walk home almost half the distance after dinner. Yes, I didn’t understand that either.
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