Illumination!

No pictures from this.
Last night, about 10:30, as I was sitting working on my netbook in my open-air living room, Harvey, my neighbor from downstairs, comes up my stairs and says, 'Dave, I've been out swimming and you should really come out and look at this.'  I grabbed the waterproof GoPro and headed out to the beach.  It turns out that the ocean is filled with life on light.  Walking out and around in the water I left a solid wash of soft luminescence, bright enough to see my legs in, with a 'sky full of stars' glowing points mixed in and around.  As I moved my hands around in the water they glowed and the trailing bubbles were illuminated by lights brighter than any fireflies I've ever seen.  Harvey dove through the water and became a moving glowing mass underwater.  It was all like something I've never seen and was the most fortunate end-gift from Goa.  The quarter moon had set, so it was just an amazing experience in the blackness of the ocean.  The lights were brilliant to the eye, but unfortunately the GoPro didn't have enough light-gathering power to pick any of it up.

Wow.

Cashews!

Every store in Goa, from tiny to large, sells cashews.  Almost anywhere you go, there are cashew trees.  Sometimes you just have to stop and look at the cashews. Right?
Just so you know.....yes, the yellow and red fruit is edible (though I haven't eaten any).
Here's a link to a Wikipedia article:
Wikipedia cashew article:

Click on image to embiggen.
Thanks to Harvey the Australian Hand Mannequin!

Fishing with a net in Agonda at the mouth of the river

Shot with a GoPro Hero, this is some video of a fisherman at sunset throwing hit net into the surf at the mouth of a river at the north end of Agonda Beach.

The link to the YouTube full sized video is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de8LIjeJwHU



To just view it from here:

Pics of some of the 'actors' in this Agonda Secret Garden play...

Of course, click on the pics to `embiggen`.

Sudip of the Monsoon & me (GoPro pic) at the Monsoon counter (at the start of the season, known as 'the family area):

Sudip taking a swim.

 Neil, yoga on the beach, teacher extraordinaire.

Walter & Beate.

Pratima hanging out at her hut balcony at Secret Garden.

Dirk, of Monsoon fame.

The group from Secret Garden at the beach at full moon.

Full Moon strangeness....

Walter and ....... relation?

Andrew on his balcony.

Yogini Tina.

Tom - serious about his fish curry.

Tom...so happy he's levitating!

The two German Anne's.

Coshiva and her back-up singers...

Harvey!

Big tree, Harvey, Pratima, Annette,Walter (left to right):

Annette.

Pratima, Walter, Annette, and Harvey

Lunch Thali

Thali!

left to right: Pratima, Walter, Santiago, Annette, & Harvey, at one more fabulous dinner by Annette.

Pratima & Coshiva at the Kamat Hotel veg south Indian restaurant near the central park in Margao.

Wada & Iddli with sambar & coconut chutney at the Kamat.

To finish off, Gulab Jamun and chai.

In Gokharna, Baba and Claudia.

Some foreign babes hanging around in Margao.

Hot enough to chew on plastic.
An unknown dog taking possesion of a chair.

Indie, our compound rescued dog, at the beach.

'Lanky', one of Indie's friends at Secret Garden.

...and 'Larry', his brother.

...more to come.....

Women at the Saturday market at Chaudi, Goa

These are assorted pictures of women selling and buying at the weekly market in the small local town of Chaudi.  These are just in the order that they were taken. I will add more pictures as my downloading speeds allow.  Please click on the picture to enlarge.