Puri is the commonest tourist place for bengalees-you as a bengalee can't stop to feel the attraction of Puri - atleast once a year you have to come down to the place. This time also, we can't escape from that attraction. We reached Puri on 10th August, 2007. On our 2nd day, we decided to visit Chilika; it is one of the biggest lake in Asia. It is around 55km from Puri. We take an Indica - it takes around 2hrs nearly. At 11.30 AM morning we arrive at our destination...the place called Satapada. It is really huge in size and the water was very calm and quiet. The weather was not good at all, it was raining. Well, we book a boat for 3 hours - the charge was huge - 700. We got into the boat and it started moving away from the land. Water and water -- 5 6 boats was roaming near to our boat. Many sea birds we found on the water. There were very small small green lands in the water. People was doing fishing related activities on those lands. After some distance covered - we found - some big fishes were jumping here and there - the boatman told us -- "See Dolphin" --- ohh -- we tried to capture those spotjump of dolphin in the water. Thanks to our luck-it is something rare view of dolphin; We were very happy. Then again our boats took little more speed towards Mohana - junction of Chilika and Bay of Bengal. On the way, we found a land -- which was mostly covered by red crabs on the sands..boatman told us -- this land is called RedCrab Island. Big small red crabs had occupied the land - we took many snaps from close. Then after some distance covered we reached on a beach -- we jumped into that beach and took some rest for a hour -- there we took crab fry and tea. We named the beach as "Khai Khai Beach" -- means "Eating Eating Beach" - we really loved the place. There ends our trip and then we back to Satapada again. We do have a great lunch there - tiger prawn, big sea crabs we took as item. The taste is ever forgottable. Our trip was really fantastic. We really enjoy the trip.
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