Skywatch Friday - Cherai beach, Kerala

This picture was taken on the penultimate day of our vacation in Kerala. The sun had almost set and the last of his rays had painted the sky with various shades of red and orange, making it almost picture-perfect. Being a Friday, the beach was not very crowded, with only a couple of tourists enjoying the last rays of the sun, trying to squeeze in that last bit of memory or pick up one last sea shell to take back home, before heading back to their resorts or even home.

Cherai is a beautiful beach located on the Vypin Island in Cochin. It is about 25 kms from the Ernakulam town.

This is my first one for Skywatch Friday, a sign of bigger things to come?

Cherai!

As we arrived at Cherai, after a back-breaking 6 hour journey from Munnar (all thanks to the traffic), and I negotiated the stay, this is what Sheetal and Aadi were busy taking photographs of:

Come morning and it gets even better. 

When your backyard looks like this... 

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 And a 20 feet road is all that separates you from this...

You know that its going to be a special holiday. And that is exactly what Cherai turned out to be. Cherai, on the Vypin island in Kochi boasts not only of a clean and pristine beach almost 10 km long, but also of close proximity to the backwaters (and if you stay where we did, at the Renai Blue Waters, it is right behind you). 

The 1.5 days we spent here were the laziest and best we have spent in a long time. The beach, the lawn at the rear overlooking the backwaters and the swimming pool kept not only us, but the little one busy as well, right through the day, giving us time for little else to write about!