India Week #7 Colva

As this past week was spent in one location, our days have become even more routine, relaxing and quite civilized with walks on the beach, breakfast on the balcony, naps in the afternoon, lunch, dinner, reading, Boston Legal, bed. We found a little cafe on our route back from the beach that sells a veggie somosa type pastry (10R each) which we started picking up to have with the fruit for breakfast. Added a nice flavour of grease that has been missing from out diet. Our lunch locations have been divided equally between a local Indian diner on the outskirts of town and, when it's too humid to drag ourselves there, we take a quick stroll for Chinese noodles, sweet and sour veggies and steamed rice. Dinners are more varied but because lunch can be at 3:30, we sometimes saffoncify ourselves with bananas and cookies. One evening we had a lovely Italian spaghetti flavoured with fresh herbs and "an olive oil so virginal it must have taken a vow of chastity". 

On Friday morning, we took a riverboat cruise that took a short detour out into the sea  in search of dolphins, of which we spotted 4. Magnificent. The boat held about 60 people, with an upper deck and the lower deck was our choice for the shade. For $16 each, they plied us with our choice of beer, alcohol and pop. Bill sipped on beer and I had gulped my fill of G&T with a twist. They provided us with a previously requested veggie lunch (regular lunch was shrimp and fresh caught fish) which was quite good. On our cruise of the river we saw many species of birds including fruit bats hanging from trees, sleeping in broad daylight. A couple took flight and showed a 3' wing span. Ugly, but impressive creatures. The river was calm and cool with only an occasional gusty breeze bringing in the smell of geriatric fish. Lol
Yesterday while enjoying breakfast, we watched with great interest men removing clay tiles from the roof of a neighbouring building. 5 men working in unison handing tiles down to each other, 1 on the roof, 2 on a ladder and 2 stacking them on the ground. Barefoot, barehanded, no safety nets! Then they repaired any damaged or twisted boards on the frame, replaced the tiles in reverse order and were done the one side in less than 8 hours. The tiles have a lip that fits on the frame and rests on adjoining tiles. No glue, nails, caulking ..they just fit tightly together.  

Today we leave Cavelossim and taxi 15k north to Colva. These beaches are on the same stretch of shore so we should be able to continue our only real program of exercise, morning walks.