Day: September 20, 2004

On the road again – Sangama and Muthathi

Saturday. 18th September. Packed into two cars. Seven of us. Shankar’s Ford with Vivek and Anu. Vasu’s Wagon R with Zeeshan, Kalyan and me. We set off early morning. Kalyan gave me a wake-up call at 5.30 am, when he was supposed to pick me up. I was still fast asleep dreaming of nice things 🙂 A cup of hot chai woke me up a little. We hit Kanakpura Road at about 6.30 am. It was overcast and cool and it looked like the rain gods were in their element. We were lucky that they changed their minds! First stop. A lily pond by the highway. We jumped out. With 5 cameras and 8 lenses between 4 people – Canon Rebel (Vasu), Nikon F75 (Zeeshan and me) and Nikon F80 and Nikon D70 (Kalyan) – there was some furious clicking. As we made our way towards Sangama (confluence point of the Cauvery and Arkavathi) about 100 kms from Bangalore, we were treated to some lovely weather. The sun played hide and seek for some time. …