Sea Sands Séance

My Sea Sands buddy Sai suggested that I add some childhood photos to my blog. So, I am adding a few photos that I found in my recent (March 2008) Vizag trip. These are of low resolution to begin with, and now they show the signs of aging (naturally, like the subjects in them!). My dad collected lots of photos, and I brought only few of them with me.

My అత్త and మామయ్య during their wedding in 1964.

Visalakshi of Sea Sands No. 6

At Marine Biology building. Looking at Chandu then (ఫని గాడి ఒళ్ళొ) and now, we sure aged a bit!

With so much parking (of butts), this concrete block probably eroded about six inches.

We shot lots of pictures this day, running around Vuda Park, R.K. Beach, etc. in a big hurry! It was like క్షణం తీరిక లేదు, దమ్మిడి ఆదాయం లేదు!

We were experimenting to find if we could take good pictures even with direct incidence of light on the lens! It didn't work this time:-)

Exploration for groundwater at Somandepalli near Ananthapur, with Geological Survey of India folks. We spent about a month there in 1988 (in the field, in tents) looking for water, as a part of final year Geophysics project.

Sea Sands Sollu Sangham Memorial

Though I have these on Flickr, felt like posting these pictures on the Blog to memorialize the great old times.

P.S., Sai, and I spent a couple of hours on the gattu in January 2007. It was painful to see all the changes and the loss of the past glory. The houses are run down, the road was in bad shape, playground was backfilled, wild plants everywhere. Sitting there in the dark with no street light didn't help either in boosting our spirits.

One thing was very obvious - gattu is a lot smaller than it used to be! See the second photo. Raja, P.S., and I sat pretty comfortably. Now, the space was barely enough for Sai and me. I wonder who shaved off a chunk of block so neatly:-)