Saturday, June 03, 2006

Beach - Redefined....

To begin with a disclaimer: The following content is only for people who is more than 18years...

What is this all about? You know, it is all about one of my most recent trips.

After almost 47days of continuous hectic work, I finally got a chance to take off on a 4 day long trip to few places in Florida. We took a flight to Tampa and from there drove to Orlando. We spent a day there and I will talk about it in another blog. The next day we went to Miami and the third day we went to Key West.

Miami is one of the famous beaches in US and for that matter it is very famous in the entire world. What is so famous about it? Ooops a lot. But before looking at that, let me tell you something. The flag of City of Miami is a tri color flag and the colors are not very similar to that of the Indian flag. I dont really know if the first one is safron, but it looks like that. The middle one is white and the last one is Green. In the white area, you can also see a circle seal of Miami. If you see it from a distance, it will look like an Indian flag only.

Okay let me get back to my topic. We drove from Orlando to Miami at night and we reached the hotel in Miami at around 2am. So we decided to take some rest and slept off. The next day we got ready by around 12 noon and drove to the most famous South Beach in Miami. After a aweful traffic, we reached the beach and found a parking lot and parked the car, which costed us $30 (dont say anything. There wasnt any other choice). We finally entered 'South Beach'. Its been more than a month since I have been to a beach. For some people who joined us, it was close to a year since they visited a beach.

As far as beaches in India or rather I would say beaches in Chennai are considered, it is a place where many couple gather and have some fun. These couples are either married, not married,
to-be married, married to different people or sometimes just some two people. It is a place for some college gangs to gather and have a looooong chat, fun, et cetra. It is a place where we get Jalapeno Bajji (Ooops molaga bajji paa. atha thaan konjam scena sonean), sundal, murukku, etc. A place for people to hang out after late evening, but you can see couples resting there (or doing something without taking any kind of rest) even in noon, when the Sun is at its best emitting high heat focusing that part of the world.

If you take Miami beach, the one most important thing that I missed there was the Milagai Bajji. Even if I dont take that much of it, I like the way the Chillis were tied at the shops. The second thing that I couldnt see there were the boats behind which few couples used to hide and the small kids who go to disturb them to sell some sundal/murukku and above all i missed the Sundal they used to sell. The humming, roaring sound of the waves in the beach was also missing. Beach???!!! Can I call this a Beach? I dont think I can call it a beach, given all my definition about a beach. The things that were the most obvious in chennai beaches were not at all to be found in Miami. So is it very disappointing? Actually it is not at all disappointing to me because it is obvious that we cannot expect these thing to be in Miami.

So finally what is there? Ooops a lot of people. Lots and lots of them. The best part is their dressings or I would say the worst part is their dressing. Most of the girls were wearing clothes that covered just 10% of the body and the rest 90% were exposed fully. Guys are not that bad as most of them were wearing shorts and they did not expose much. Some girls went a little ahead and just covered some 3% and exposed the rest. Don't ask me if I saw someone like that because I do not want to lie.

The beach is not very deep. It is less than 4 feets for almost 100-150 feets distance from the place the water starts. So we walked all the way till the place we felt that we can manage the height. There wasn't many waves and the ones that came were not at all high. They just raised to less than half a feet. So it is pretty calm water, but definitely not a very calm place. Things were happening all around us, but not even for one of us. There were couples having fun in the water. Dont ask me the meaning of fun in this context, because I cannot say it that loud.

There was so many people all over and they were just lying on the shores. People were having fun and the gals looked so beautiful, sexy and stuffy. Oh, i want to say a lot about the beach and the way the girls were looking there. But due to being so considerate about the ettiquettes, I am not telling anything about it. All in all, i can say one thing, the definition that I had for beach has got totally redefined after i visited Miami.

Miami beach is a place where people have no limits to the way they can be there. It is a place water acts has virtual walls of a bed room. It is way too crowdy and way too sexy. It is a place for all the bachelors to have something scenic for eyes. A place for all the married americans to have lots of fun away from home. In all, i can define it as 'No Limit unless and until one sets something for oneself'.