Fully Salted !!!

The breeze of riot dashed us with courage. The ever hot and humid Singapore now carried a lot of MOISTURE IN THE AIR.

Naturally, we were overwhelmed.

Signifcantly, thrilled and

unwillingly, we thought of it.

‘Are you sure ?’, I asked my mate with astonishment. ‘Yes, I am’, he replied with full grace. ‘I thought you wouldn’t like it’, I continued. ‘May be, but I gotto give a go. I cant stay untouched for ever and this is the right time’, he brimmed with confidence. ‘Ok, dude lets go then but don’t change your mind once we are in as am damn curious too’

The conversation is over and we headed to the office area to rent the boat for our first kayaking experience in the open sea. My mate, who never entered any water surface with more than 6 feet depth was equally curious as me to get cracking in with his first water adventure. I had my eye on the water scooter but even am thrilled to get this kayaking experience. We (4 of us) been to Pasir Ris beach (Singapore) for a change in weekend schedules without any plans of adventure but as always ended up with dynamic plans.

The price is 14$ per hour and that sounded reasonably fair to us anticipating great fun. We got this huge double seater boat with paddles to row in to the sea. We din had the swim costumes and gotto comprise ourselves with the tshirt and pant that we were wearing. We cracked in to the sea and it was quiet a pleasant feeling to see ourselved floating in the salty surrounding.

‘Man its fun’,my friend shouted with all smiles. ‘Yeah, be carefull’, I slowly realized the situation. ‘Damn, I missed this for long time.. its fun man’, he cant shut up. We gracefully paddled up for a while here and there for 20 mins odd. Then we started enjoying the ride and felt like king of the sea. We started going towards the middle and some butterflies-in-stomach feeling started prevailing on me. We were fine as long as we sail against or along with the tide. The moment we started rowing parallel to the tides, we felt the intensity of the thrill.

The boat started wobbling and we more concentrated to balance and stay floating.. Our existence is as good as Mathew hayden’s current form. We soon perished jus like sehwag got bowled of Yorker trying to clear the boundary. The boat toppled and there we tasting the salted water from nose to throat.. We both were panic initially but I thought its ok as we got life jackets on. However, my friend totally shocked and started screaming for his life. As we both were in one side of the boat, we are unable hold it for support as the boat kept rolling like devotees doing ‘anga prathatchanam’ surrounding the ‘praharam’.

I normally don’t take up the responsblty in fail safe procedures.. but this time I calmly swimmed to the other side of the boat to stop this rolling spree. The boat stopped rolling, we started to feel secure and my mate realized the life jacket helps him to float. Then slowly we moved towards the shore and felt better at the end.

Few funny points we realized later

- When we fell down from the boat, my friend was screaming for help. The other mates in the sea thought we are just playing and we are asking them to take pics. So they came forward and took few pics (think whatz running inside my mate’s mind)

- The lifeguards there din give a damn when my mate cried for help but cruised in like a james bond wen they saw one of the paddles is floating in the middle. I like the humanity

- Ofcourse, the whole audience in the shore had a free comedy show… not even vadivelu and vivek can better us… not even bagyaraj can frame a better screenplay…