Marwante
Last weekend, we had been to this quick trip to Marwante, a beach near Kundapur. To be precise, we were at Turtle bay beach resort, a decent but overpriced resort near Trasi junction which is 12 Kms after Kundapur (coming from Mangalore) on NH 17.
It's a very calm beach where the coast is shallow enough for you to venture into the sea but deep enough for you to enjoy the waters. There weren't too many people either. There is Souparnika river closeby which joins the Arabian sea near Marwante. In fact a section on NH17 has Arabian sea on one side and Souparnika river on the other side. You can walk along the beach from the resort to this section on NH 17. We went for a short boat ride into the backwaters of this river. There is a village "Padukone", a section of which is actually completely an island in these backwaters !! Every home has a boat there, they say. One of our co-passengers in the boat got very excited that this is the same "Padukone" that figures in the names of Deepika Padukone. He called his wife to tell her that he's in front of Deepika Padukone's village :P
Don't forget to go to "Light house island" if you go to this resort. It is just a collection of rocks nearby. But the motorboat ride into the sea is good and there were interesting fishes and sea-urchins and loads of gross-looking crabs there :P
It's a very calm beach where the coast is shallow enough for you to venture into the sea but deep enough for you to enjoy the waters. There weren't too many people either. There is Souparnika river closeby which joins the Arabian sea near Marwante. In fact a section on NH17 has Arabian sea on one side and Souparnika river on the other side. You can walk along the beach from the resort to this section on NH 17. We went for a short boat ride into the backwaters of this river. There is a village "Padukone", a section of which is actually completely an island in these backwaters !! Every home has a boat there, they say. One of our co-passengers in the boat got very excited that this is the same "Padukone" that figures in the names of Deepika Padukone. He called his wife to tell her that he's in front of Deepika Padukone's village :P
Don't forget to go to "Light house island" if you go to this resort. It is just a collection of rocks nearby. But the motorboat ride into the sea is good and there were interesting fishes and sea-urchins and loads of gross-looking crabs there :P