For a change we had a quiet weekend in Bethel, We had a team from Hyderabad, Vishnu and his friends(Vinay, Ram, Phalgun) joined us in Bethel this weekend. They were supposed to be there for three days, however they decided to leave immediately after Rafting!! They left behind a Cell phone and pair of pants

The relative quiet on the homestay side was balanced by the hectic Rafting schedules we had.

We had Naveen, who along with his friends were planning to do a trek and also complete White water rafting while they were in Coorg. Unfortunately by the time they finished their trek of Brahmagiri, they were too late to reach for their rafting session.

Nevermind guys, the rafting season goes upto August, hope you had nice time in Coorg.

Dr. Chengapa and his team was another guest who was supposed to come for rafting, but couldn’t make it

We had Anmol and team, who were also scheduled to go for rafting at 330 PM, but actually went rafting with Vishnu’s group at 9.00 AM in the morning

Then we had our gang.. Ravi, Sampath, Sanjay, Santhosh, Shivu, Dhanu, Rajesh, and Rakesh, who had come over to raft, they had lunch in Bethel and went for rafting.. This was first time for Rakesh this season, the first time ever for most of the rest. And it was certainly an eventful start for our folks, they got stuck at the Wicked Witch rapid and had to get off to try and get the raft into the water, instead of steadying things they almost lost their raft, it took some acrobatic diving and rescue from Rakesh and Mohammed (Our rafting guide) to finally get the raft back to the team

Through all this, Ravi, who was rafting for the first time, was at his whimsical best, quote.. “I know everyone dies..but will someone remind me why am I paying money for it” …After seeing Rakesh dive into the raft…”Forget Over Right, Over Left ..if I had to do the same thing..I would have ‘left right..to the next world’” (Over Right, Over Left are some of the commands your learn while rafting )..

Of course after all this..he has already booked the slot to do it all over again
Next time, I’ll be there too ..

As usual I’ll put up photos as and when I get my hands on them..