This man sells tender coconuts, which are exactly the same as all coconuts but with an extra word in the name. He chops them open and you drink the juice with a straw and then give it back and he chops it more open and you eat the flesh. Then you throw it on the ground and the goats eat the rest and pretty much everything else that you could think of throwing on the ground, not to mention things like posters glued to walls.
Small children, cricket, cow creatures, less-than-clean sand; this is the coastal Southern India I know. Most of the boats in the picture were donated after all boats (not in the picture) were destroyed by the 2004 tsunami. Very strange to actually stand on the beach where it happened and imagine the water receding and reapproaching as a colossal water-wall.
This was not something tourists were supposed to take pictures of but I liked it more than most of the hyped-up stuff. There were frogs and snakes and fish in this little pond and it was nice to sit and drink a coke and think about how all these creatures could evolve into man eating beasts within the next several generations if people keep providing them with enough toxic trash.
Stone carvings, exactly the picture that one can be expected to take. Mostly it reminds me of how sweaty I was throughout the walk. So sweaty.
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