Agumbe – Kota

The weekend of 5,6,7th April was a long one thanks to Ugadi, our new year. We decided to utilize the holiday and go out of town. What better way to celebrate the new year, than seeing a new place?  For lack of time and abundance of laziness, the place we came up with was Agumbe. We’d go there, trek to a few waterfalls, see a couple of places nearby and come back. We reckoned since it was summer, we’d be saved from the leeches to an extent. Agumbe for the uninitiated, is gets the country’s 2nd highest rainfall (after Cherapunji).
 Our alarm didn’t go off on 5th morning (or maybe it did and we just didn’t hear it!), so by the time we started it was already 6 AM. Target was to leave at 5 sharp to avoid Tumkur Road traffic. Anyway we were 6 of us and a 16 month old. On Tumkur Road, I realised, I’d forgotten my camera bag. This was a hige disappointment. People made digs at me through out the entire trip for this. In that hurry to get out of the house, I forgot to pick up the packed camera bag .Another thing that kinda upset us was the fact that we couldn’t take our car this time ‘coz the windshield had to be replaced. Thanks to the out-of-the-blue hailstone rain that Blore received a few weeks back, a tree branch fell on the car and cracked the windshield Well, these things do happen I suppose, but of course we didn’t let it spoil the trip for us.