I forgot to mention about a lady performing mimicry & mime yesterday night, near Boston harbor and also near Hay mkt. She entertained people by dressing up somewhat gorgeously, like a v v long doll & making sudden movements of hands & other limbs of the body. Specially the children around there were highly impressed & were intently gazing at her---- when she made an almost mechanical movement of the hand---- extending the same, in a posture of begging for alms. This paid her dividends & many from the crowd gave her alms, in an apparent bid of applause for the mimicry or mime, whatsoever it might have been.
Today, it is a sunday & Runi and Yash have already planned for going to New Hampshire....... to Hampton beach & Rye beach there. Runi & Yash began their career in New Hampshire. They completed their Ph.D s from College of Dartmouth, NH.
We had our lunch a bit early and Yash & Runi got busy in loading folding chairs (For sitting in sea-beaches and other places) in the Dicky of the car.
Yash drove after filling Gas, towards New Hampshire. It took about 2 hrs 15 min. to reach Hampton beach.
Both Yash & Runi told us that it is the cleanest beach in US.
A lot of tourists were already there & consequently, a lot of cars. Fallout---- no parking space for us.
Runi & Yash talked among themselves & drove on & on to reach Rye beach. Still no space.
Yash drove onwards to reach a point of the beach where parking seemed to be avlble; but, fees for the same were astonishngly high & he turned around to go further. Ultimately the car stopped to another point in the Rye beach where it was very rocky. What I mean to say is that it was boulders & boulders everywhere on the beach, here.
However, this was our point to park our car & walk some distance to find a riddle before us. How to get down to the beach below, thru rocks & boulders, heaped at rondom?? Yash is our pathfinder & shows us the way. Yeah......... we have done it. Chairs are laid for us to have some rest also------ great.
The ocean brings a change of scenary & my mind soars across the Atlantic, up the sky & towards the horizon also. What is that there in the horizon? An outline faintly visible? Maybe an island--- Runi says, after thinking for a while.
We see people taking sunbaths, some adults and children also trying to swim in the sea, with some easy-to-handle type equipments which help them to fight against the sea-waves and breakers and float ; playful children on the beach & I find dada, Yash & Runi busy with their cameras. Who is this there in a peculiar as well as almost horizontal posture? Yes--- Yash it is, for sure. Yash has bent himself into a unrecognizable figure, in an apparent attempt of taking photographs of sea-weeds brought to the beach by the sea-waves. Runi walks for quite some distance & Bou-di asks me------- where is Runi? Can you see??
I see a fig. distantly & thoughtfully say--- I shd have brought my binocular.
After some time Runi appears & Yash goes slightly inside the sea---- he is already wearing a Bermuda. Runi warns him loudly------ take care Yash.... Yr things in the pocket will get soaked.
Startlingly, Yash feels his pockets & seems to be re-assured.
Photographs, photographs and photographs------ our team happily clicks their camera every single min. till they r tired. Look---- there is the seagull flying... here it is bathing in the sea , or maybe hunting fish etc. fm the sea. The screams and laughters of the boys, girls and smaller children spoke of joy unbound everywhere on the beach. Even infants had their share of joy, as they sat unmovingly, upon the beach, under watch of their parents. The sea-waves sent water upto the baby's lower part of the body & it seemed that it (the baby) liked it very much. In the meantime Runi led yash to a certain distance & among the boulders where some stones of different size & shape had been collected & kept, by someone ; but, left behind. Runi brought all those with her---- perhaps as a mark of our tour to the beaches.
While returning, we stopped at a restaurant viz. Bounty Bar & Grill------ they serve lobsters. Twin-lobster dish @ $ 21 (Nearly).
Runi ordered for fish with chips ----2 plates; garlic bread --- 1 plate; Yash ordered for -- 1 plate of Twin Lobster (For him & dada). Besides, this Chicken finger ( I don't know if he ordered for the same or it came as a side-dish).
After breaking the bread, we waited for a while; but very soon hot dishes were served, as per our orders.
We were hungry and finished the course.
The lady, whom I thought to be the owner of the restaurant asked us------ did you all enjoy the dishes?
We replied in the affirmitive. " Bye"-- she said----- then we made our exit listen to her last words "enjoy".
Next, we stopped at Hampton beach---- I have forgot to mention here that while in Rye beach , we found that tide-water was on the rise & we had to shift our chairs a no. of times backwards. Here, in Hampton beach , we found that sea-water covered the beach soon and the the same could hardly be seen---- though the beach spans, in a semi-circular fashion, for a very large segment. Plainly speaking------- the beach became invisible & water was splashing now everywhere.
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Many tourists have already gone away & it was less problem for us for parking a motor car. So, we parked & stood behind the guard wall on the shore & took photographs at our free will.
On our way back home, the rural environ of NH provided a unique scenary & now I could understand why Runi had so long been so enthusiastic about NH. The scenary of the setting sun , behind clouds, was perhaps comparable to a Kurosawa film .
The rest is retracing our path to Boston & I am stopping here, writing my blog.
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