Childrens Park @ Calicut Beach - A quick visit

Calicut Beach is always bustling with activity. Just like the never ending tides, the crowds also seems to be never ending. Eventhough heavily crowded, this beach has some speciality which does not make any visitor uneasy because of the crowds. Don't expect this to be a beach where you can have a sunbath or a bath in swimming costume. Sometime back I had blogged about the life at Calicut Beach.(Click here to see the different colors of Calicut Beach)

Even though I had been to this beach many times, only recently did I see a childrens park adjacent to the beach. It is not a bad set up at all. The evening sun ensured that every single object in the park is looking more beautiful. Surprisingly there was no entry fee for this park.

The entry pole signified that this park has been donated by Lions Club, Calicut.

The beach view was quite good, thanks to the Sun who was playing hide and seek with the clouds.

One more look into the beach and I was amazed by the number of kites flying in the sky. Even now I love to make kites by myself and the sense of achievement when I see those flying high up is something which I can't express in words. 

One of the kites was really standing out because of its novel design.

The kite vendor's business seems to be thriving well as more and more kids were seen demanding their parents to buy one for them. They cannot be blamed as it is quite exciting to fly one.

The park has got some nice, but basic equipment to keep the kids entertained. The equipment in the park seems to be unique because of the creativity associated with the design of each one of them. The slider resting on the jumping fish's tail seems to be creatively designed, eventhough it is not maintained well. 

Here is another rocket cage.

From this angle it seems to be a watch tower kind of a thing. This also is a slider and kids were queuing up for a climb up. 

In this era of amusement parks where there are lot of innovative and exciting rides, these kids are equally satisified and happy in using these traditional equipment and were seen queuing up again and again for a ride, until their parents forcefully take them out of the park underlying the fact that satisfaction is not something which only money can buy.

This park also housed lot of thick vegetation, which helped in hiding the huge crowds inside.

This cactus tree attracted my attention since normal cactus trees which we see in this part of the world don't have this kind of a stem. 

The sun had by now transformed into a red glowing ball and I began to place it near to all kind of objects around and started capturing frames.

Meanwhile my son was enjoying, having a fight with the lion king.

The sponsors of this park had ensured that their logo is everywhere.

There seems to be a dearth of such parks in this part of the state for the crowd present here was enormous. Even though not well maintained, the ambience was quite attractive. The cool soothing breeze from the sea ensured that children are kept cool amongst their busy acitivities. Watching the kids hoping around in joyfull mood is a sight to watch and this alone is sufficient to make our day.

Hope the authorities will take good care such beautiful weekend getaways for the town dwellers, coz some high rise building are fast coming up on the other side of the road. Wonder when these small but useful utilities which serves amusement for the local kids give way for high risers like this.

Other beautiful Locations nearby
 1. Parapally - A rocking beach @ Quilandy
2. NC Gardens & beach resort @ Parappanangadi
3. Gotheswaram @ Beypore
4. Beypore port
5. Mananchira - Kozhikode's Heart is here
6. Thiruvachira Temple - A calming influence

Kozhikkode beach - Crowded but Colourful

Kozhikkode Beach - Another of the beaches in Kerala flocked by the city dwellers during the evenings of weekends. I never misses a chance to visit this beach whenever I happen to be in Kozhikkode (Calicut) this beach is also very vast, quiet scenic and clean sand.

Just be there a little early in the evening ensures that you can enjoy the beach before the masses flocks in.

It was just about 3pm when we reached this beach. It was a cloudy day, but that does not deter the beauty by any means.



The trees found in the beach adds an additional attraction to the whole scene

Once in the beach sand, just turn back and we can see the beautiful beach hospital, housed in a building which is reminiscent of typical palace building.

This building seems to be recently painted adding to the beauty.

Towards one side of the beach there is a beautifully laid pavement, with nice and colourful interlocking tiles and beautiful light posts.

Unfortunately during the last monsoons a portion of this pavement was washed away by the sea's fury.

The sound of a ringing bell was approaching us. An icecream vendor was pushing along a truly colorful three wheeled vehicle with the bell being sounded for attracting the attention of possible customers. The atomsphere even though cloudy was little humid and hot aiding the vendor to earn more customers

The colorful vehicle in the backdrop of the sea presented a beautiful natural pose for me to capture.

Soon another guy set up his shop near us and we could see that he attracted a lot of customers instantaneously. He had a wide variety of salted pickles made out of different species of mangoes and gooseberries. The saltiness of the preparation makes the preparation quiet additive and hence he has got a good set of returning customers

An old man approached us, and he began to talk to me as if he knew me very well. He told me that something is good to happen in my life soon and if I want to know more about it he will tell everything with the help of his parrot. He was a fortune teller, who uses a trained parrot to pick one among the collection of cards which he has. Based on the selected card he will predict the person's future. Since I was not interested I, he soon left the scene.

The beautiful parrot, who has to lead its entire life in an area not more than one square feet seems quiet content with its life and helps to earn its master bread for the day.

We could see a lot of such fortune tellers. Some of them seems to be from Tamil nadu, our neighbouring state, which shows that there is a good market for this business in this beach. This lady with another colorful parrot in her custody was roaming around.

These forture tellers marketing technique seems to be to keep on telling prospective customers about their impending fortune.

The pan wallah also set up his shop under a very colourful umbrella, the picturesque object aiding him to attract business.

We saw a big kite slowly climbing its way up the sky.

Soon it gained enough height amidst the increased crowd and it caught the attention of my kids, who promptly made a request to have one in their possession.

This big kite was being send to the sky by the Kite vendor and it attracted almost all the kids present there and his business too was flourishing.

Soon we had a neat looking kite with many tails and my son had the feeling of having achieved something when his kite was flying high up in the air. To be frank even me felt satisfied when we saw our kite gain more and more height, thanks to the sea breeze.

The number of kites on air increased and it presented another visual treat.


My kids also had a good time here

They were enjoying the sand, running around without the fear of falling, making sand castles while we had a good evening chat amidst the cool sea breeze, the prospering businesses around us and above all the sound of waves who never gets tired and again and again vigorously comes back.