Trek to Shivaganga falls..... photos:Minchu

On the morning of 12th of April this year, we all woke up early as it as planned to go for a trek. Though the people were only 22, our enthusiasm was not so less (usually our group contains about 35-40 people). That morning the departure became late. Hence our trek also started very late. The name of the place that we were going to visit on that day was Shivganga. It is a falls near Shirsi of Uttara Kannada, Karnataka. It was stunning.



The images above are the photos of the steps that we had to climb down to join the river. After joining the river, we had to walk along the river for only about 1km.




But the trek between theses steps and the river was tough. The route was very steep.You can see in the pictures above. It was easy to get down but it was tough while climbing up.
Then we joined the river. The river was full of volcanic black rocks. Most of them were visible because of summer.



On the opposite side of this, the beautiful falls was present with its charming beauty.






We had a wonderful swimming in the pool in front of the falls consisting of two stages (can be seen in the above images).
This is my father. He was swimming (floating) keeping his legs crossed. I took the photos from the height standing on a big rock beside the pool. You can see the height.
After having the swim, fortunately we also got to see a snake (I don't know the species ). It was so beautiful, that i suddenly took camera and started taking snaps. But because of bad luck, the battery of camera was going down. And I was able to take only a few snaps. Some of them are below.







This is a 'Bronzeback'.
Everybody was tired very much while we were going back. But the important thing was that everybody did the trek successfully. And also there were no injuries throughout the trek. Then we got into the vehicle. While our journey back towards Dharwad,our city in north Karnataka, we saw many peacocks, jungle fowls. I enjoyed the trek very much. In fact, everybody enjoyed.