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It was tuesday , I found that three important employees were absent on duty.It was like undeclared strike without any purpose.It was impossible to carry on the new work without them. I finished theobligatory work and suddenly I thought of joining the strike and I told my wife and children to occupy their seats in my MANZA. I called up the owner cum manager of a guest house at Diveagar and told him that we will like to have seafood for dinner.He said that everything is available.
My wife and son asked me ,"where are we going"? .I said the plan is to visit Diveagar beach (situated on arabic sea shore , Dist-Raigad, MH) They were shocked to hear that as no luggage was packed and the trip was totally unexpected.I asked them to seat inside the car.And I went inside the home and gathered all liftable items in my armspan for eg.clothes, tees, shorts, induction stove, blankets , and thrown them in the boot of Manza.No time was wasted in packing the things in bags properly. Somehow my wife convinced me to alow her to alight and bring utensils and food preparation items for my 2 and 1/2 year old daughter.
For the manza , it was not a surprise , as she is always prepared and equipped for unscheduled long drives , courtsey, her caretaker TAI.During pretakeoff iddling I remembered about money, again went inside the home, grabbed handfull of notes and put approx.half of them in the glovebox and remaining half underneath the body mat.finally left the parking slot at 5 pm.
From Pune ,we reached the kapurhol HP fuel outlet, filled up the diesel tank up to the brim.
Following route was taken- NH4 up to kapurhol -Bhor -varandha ghat-Mahad-Mangaon-Mhasala-Diveagar.
Pune to Kapurhol stretch (30 km)is a part of the NH4, then kapurholhol to Mahad is
approx 85 km is a poorly maintained state highway , last 45 km is a ghat section. The ghat begins with the back water of the huge Nira-Devghar dam accompanying you on LHS within few feet distance from the egde of the road.The backwater accompanies the road for a distance of 25km approx. and on RHS there are forest covering tall Sayhadri mountains.
By mistake if the car leaves the bituminous stretch and enters on the left side of the road then the valley filled up with backwater is just a meter away ready to swallow the car.I was happy to complete the stretch before sunset. Everyone was happy to closely see the backwater through the window till I told them that it is more than 100 feet deep.
We had tea at a tea vendor's handcart situated at the top of the ghat and then reached Mahad (Taluka place situated on Mumbai -Goa highway) at approx.8 pm.I called up the guest house owner and asked him to suggest me a safer route from Mahad.
He asked me to come via Mangaon -Mhasala(taluka places) to diveagar route(approx 65 km) as alternate route i.e. goregaon -mhasala is lonely and bad road.
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My wife and son asked me ,"where are we going"? .I said the plan is to visit Diveagar beach (situated on arabic sea shore , Dist-Raigad, MH) They were shocked to hear that as no luggage was packed and the trip was totally unexpected.I asked them to seat inside the car.And I went inside the home and gathered all liftable items in my armspan for eg.clothes, tees, shorts, induction stove, blankets , and thrown them in the boot of Manza.No time was wasted in packing the things in bags properly. Somehow my wife convinced me to alow her to alight and bring utensils and food preparation items for my 2 and 1/2 year old daughter.
For the manza , it was not a surprise , as she is always prepared and equipped for unscheduled long drives , courtsey, her caretaker TAI.During pretakeoff iddling I remembered about money, again went inside the home, grabbed handfull of notes and put approx.half of them in the glovebox and remaining half underneath the body mat.finally left the parking slot at 5 pm.
From Pune ,we reached the kapurhol HP fuel outlet, filled up the diesel tank up to the brim.
Following route was taken- NH4 up to kapurhol -Bhor -varandha ghat-Mahad-Mangaon-Mhasala-Diveagar.
Pune to Kapurhol stretch (30 km)is a part of the NH4, then kapurholhol to Mahad is
approx 85 km is a poorly maintained state highway , last 45 km is a ghat section. The ghat begins with the back water of the huge Nira-Devghar dam accompanying you on LHS within few feet distance from the egde of the road.The backwater accompanies the road for a distance of 25km approx. and on RHS there are forest covering tall Sayhadri mountains.
By mistake if the car leaves the bituminous stretch and enters on the left side of the road then the valley filled up with backwater is just a meter away ready to swallow the car.I was happy to complete the stretch before sunset. Everyone was happy to closely see the backwater through the window till I told them that it is more than 100 feet deep.
We had tea at a tea vendor's handcart situated at the top of the ghat and then reached Mahad (Taluka place situated on Mumbai -Goa highway) at approx.8 pm.I called up the guest house owner and asked him to suggest me a safer route from Mahad.
He asked me to come via Mangaon -Mhasala(taluka places) to diveagar route(approx 65 km) as alternate route i.e. goregaon -mhasala is lonely and bad road.
too be continued...
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