Nagala Waterfalls Trek-2 (Eastern entry): Trip Log

 Members: 30 (Trek organized by Chennai Trekking Club, ‘CTC’)

Start time: 5:30 AM, Saturday, 10^th Apr, 2010

End time: 10:00 PM, Sunday, 11^th Apr, 2010

Total travel: 250 Kms approx

Total expense: 500 INR (Food and Petrol sharing price)

What went great:

- Awesome adventure. Among few of the best trek.

- Amazing water pools and falls all over the trek

- Great management by CTC guys

- The best part: Made very good friends

Pains:
- Left from College one day in advance due to lack of conveyance from Great Lakes (near Mahabs) during early morning hours
- My pick up point changed to Guindy in the last moment due to no conveyance at Tidel park
- Need to learn swimming properly :(

Total duration: 2 days, 1 night

Going: Chennai – Nagala

Coming: Nagala – Chennai

Weather Conditions: Hot and Sunny

Vehicle: Car

10^th Apr, 2010

Guindy, Chennai

04:00 hrs – Reached to Guindy, Chennai

05:30 hrs – Started from Nathan's cafe (the next pick up point)

07:00 hrs – Reached Nagala and had fresh and best idly of one year stay at Chennai

Akka (the village woman) preparing and serving delicious breakfast

08:00 hrs – Trek Start

 Aditya and Ananth: The amazing trek organizers and trekkers 

 The first pool, Depth: 3-10 ft, Safe mostly ;)

 Got tired and got a snap :)

 The dead-end pool, Depth: 3-20 ft, Dangerous for non-swimmers

 Luggage transfer through ferry: Great team work and coordination, Kudos to all swimmers

 Ok...finally crossed the dead-end pool

 Trailing through these boulders was most difficult for me

 

Few good friends I made: Arun and Shaila

Reena: One more!!

Ananth: The superhero

Srinivasan and Anusha: The beautiful couple

 Gayathri, Teja, Sahila, Reena at the picnic (final) pool

 Dinner time, Menu: Knorr soup and Maggi

Bed tea :) 

 

 Every fall has its own story

 The picnic pool and few scared non-swimmers 'divers'. Thanks to Ananth, Max and others!!

Picnic pool, depth: 3-20 ft, Deadly, Not for non-swimmers

Excited by seeing the new pool, I went till the stream and stood under it for some-time...water was unexpectedly cold...so thought of getting out of the pool....while getting back I thought of catching hold of a rock at sideways of the pool...I told Herbert (fellow trekker) to keep an eye on me...(I am a semi-swimmer, can swim only for few-feets :P)...Start -> Damn i am so tired, could not even swim -> ok let me catch hold of that rock and I will be out then -> finally reached up to the rock -> put my hands on rock...wow had so much fun in water -> oops...my hand slipped and I am going deep into  water...damn water is not swallow here -> GUDUP GUDUP (drowning) -> ok let me try again to catch hold of the rock.-> GUDUP GUDUP (drowning) -> no success, damn I am screwed -> HELP -> ok somebody is watching me, I will be saved -> GUDUP  GUDUP (drowning) -> slipped my hand again from the rock -> GUDUP GUDUP (drowning) -> dude was watching still and was having fun...damn..give your hand I am all screwed -> Finally hand comes as a bliss -> GUDUP  GUDUP (drowning) -> Saved :D...-> Got a complete lecture from Ananth :D

BTW please don't try such whacky stuff...;)

 Reena after being thrown in water, Max the savior again

 3 commandos: Arun, Raghu, Varun 

 Naveen: Another hell of a trekker at CTC 

Arun, doing some impossible stuff. Hope he will get a chance in Avatar-2

Crossing dead end pool to cross dead-end pool while getting back

Fun time while getting lost in Nagala

The zoo animal: Naveen

 Few CTCiians

 ...and he was watching us.

 The village girl

Lovely sisters: Reena & Shaila

The beautiful smile: A village child

 Why so happy?

Good friends I made

CTC Commando Raghu

The beautiful village children

Amazing experience and one of the best trek I have ever done...impeccable planning and implementation...Kudos to the organizers and core trekkers: Aditya, Ananth, Naveen, Raghav, Arun, Kishore, Mony who made it so ultimate.

In the end, it's not the just place which makes it beautiful but it's the people at the place which makes it great...i am happy to meet 29 wonderful people at the trek...friends be in touch and let's keep rocking the world!!