Alibaug Next?

Basking in the success of last weekend’s Sports Day (see posts), Hari Singh Shekhawat already has his sights fixed on Alibaug. He has even decided on February 2 or 9 as the likely date of the trip, much to the consternation of people like Srichand Arora who feel it would be “too much too soon”. Ved Prakash Grover (pic below) too advised against it: “We have just had an outing at Borivali National Park, in February you want us to go to Alibaug, in March we will have to go on the Himachal tour… Won’t this be too much of a strain?”
But Shekhawat is undeterred. He says he has already got the consent of seven members and even if he has to settle for a smaller group this time, go he must! Clearly, he has the support of the likes of Nafisa Sayyad who keep reminding him on Alibaug every other day. The only deterrent, if any, is the dilemma of undertaking the trip by road or boat. Alibaug is a coastal township, about 30 km from Mumbai (as the crow flies), in Raigarh district of the Konkan region.
Meanwhile, members are still savoring the hangover of the Sports Day – Bhaswati Bose today bringing her laptop to the Garden to share photographs of the event’s main highlights (lead pic). Some of the images have also been mounted in the ‘slideshow’ appearing in the sidebar of this page. Please feel free to place your requisition for prints at the earliest -- and not later than this Saturday.
Jagmohan Papneja:
Too much tourism is bad. Sightseeing should be good enough.
Harish Wadhwa:
The pics of Sports Day have come really good. All-in-all, it was a good day.