Date of Journey: 29th April 2012
Total Distance: ~400 KM
Route Followed: Sagar > Kargadi > Kollur > Marvanthi Beach > Annegudee > St. Mary's Island
My wife had some offering to Annegudee Shri Varsidhi Vinayaka Temple so we planned to visit our father-in-law house at Sagar and have a one day trip to Annegudee and nearby places. Google shows there are some intresting places like Kollur, Marvanthi, Malpe, Udupi... so came up with the plan to cover some places on the way but the main intrest it to visit Annegude.
Trip Map:
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My father-in-law informed that the entire journey may be comes around 400 to 450 KM so if we leave early in the morning then we can return home before 12:00 PM. Finally decided to call our cab driver around 5:30 AM and slept early that day. We all wake up around 5:00AM took the bath (except my 1year old daughter as she was still in her deep sleep) and slowly got ready one by one. My mother-in-law served us with a hot cup (people in malnad use a mug which will be equivalent to our 3 to 4 cups) of coffee. Its a amazing experience to enjoy sip by sip in that chilling environment. We left home by 5:30 AM and headed our journey towards Hosanagara.
Kargadi Ganapati temple:
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| Beautiful Gopuram at the temple entrance |
Just few kilometers before Nagara we saw a huge gopura of a temple and our driver told us this is Kargadi Ganapati temple so we tought to have darshana so stoped our car and entered the temple. Temple priest is almost done his pooja and by seeing us he did aarathi and distributed prasada. Temple is very well decorated with glass chips and premises of garbha gudi was decorated with flowers priest informed us recently there was a procession held. We spent around 15 min there and resumed our journey.
My father-in-law belongs to Nagara family so he was very eager to show his native. Before entering the Nagara town on the road side we saw the old fort which was ruled by Keladhi Veerappa nayaka. As we need to travel a long way we just saw the fort from the roadside (i was not satisfied, may be i will visit next time for this). We stopped near a hotel shabari to have a quick refreshment.
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| Village style hotel in Nagara |
Kollur:
After few hours of journey we saw beautifull hill on our leftside and also many zeeps filled with peoples comming towards us when enquired we came to know that its a Kodachadri hills. Our driver informed us tourists who visits Kollur temple will go there as there is a small temple dedicated to Shankaracharya. As its sunday there were many tourist there, we have visited Kollur few months back so we moved ahead.
Marvanthi Beach:
Maravanthe is a beach near Kundapura, Karnataka, India. One of Karnataka's most beautiful beaches. It is about 55 kilometres (34 mi) from Udupi. NH-17 runs right next to the beach and the Suparnika River flows on the other side of the road, creating a spectacular scenery and considered only one of its kind in India. The river Souparnika, which almost touches Arabian Sea here, makes a U turn and goes eastward to join the Sea only after a journey of more than 10 kilometres (6.2 mi), which is a geological wonder.
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| View of River and Sea seperated by just few meters. |
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| View of Arabian Sea |
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| Unknown Feets |
Annegudee:
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| Annegudde Temple |
By the time we reached the temple priests are decorating the gods idol with silver shields so garbhagudi is covered with curtains. After 10 min curtains are opended and we had a good darshana we did some offerings and rituals what we tought of doing.
It already a mid afternoon and our stomach started giving indication that it want something to digest. We stoped our car at Karavali Restaurant to have a lunch, its a good hotel maintained properly. We had a conversation with one family sitting next to our table who just returned from St Mary's island. They told that boats which will carry passengers to island will be availabe till 6:00 PM from Malpe Fishing Harbour. We quickly had our luch and reached harbour in 30min.
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| NIGER DELTA KING ship on the harbour |
By the time we took the tickets boat left the shore :( by no other option we need to wait for the next boat. The guy who issue the tickts informed us that next boat will arive after 45min but it took around 2 hours for the next boat to come. All our enthu is lost in waiting for 2 hours so we are little frustated, harbour was very much crouded by that time and we some how managed to get inside the boat with little quarrel with the people wrongly entering the queue.
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| Canal at the harbour through which all ships will pass. |
Boat travelled for 45min and they stoped when the island is just a half KM away from us. From there we need to change our boats to smaller one which will take us to the shore. We have been told that we need to return back withing one hour.
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| View of St Mary's Island from the our boat |
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| Another view of St. Mary's Island |
Now its entertainment time but no energy left to do it, still me, shilpa and tanishka spend some time taking bath in sea water and also we tried speed boat.
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| View from the island |
Return to harbour is also the same problem, peoples are too rush in getting into the boat. As there is no proper maintance its very difficult to get into that small boats. Finally we reached harbour by 6:00PM and returned to the same hotel where we had our lunch for snacks and coffee. After this light refreshment our car ran nostop and reaced home by 11:00PM. Except some dull moments in St Mary's island rest its a good journey and covered all most every places as per our plan.
Conclusion:
Never go to St Mary's island in an hurry or with little time frame.
Travelling to island is absoultly unmannaged, there were no body to properly monitor the travellers problems.
Better not to carry old peoples and kids they may get hurt while changing the boat.
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