Camp was at St.Stanislaus Villa this time for a duration of 8 days(Monday to Monday ending on 30th May 2011) Not too many of the old timers, and the helpers shuttled up and down juggling camp duties along with work schedules and other engagements. The helpers this time were Ryan, Neil, Edgar & Nishtha... all part of the K.B.A. that bagged second place at the Doolally Beer Olympics this year.
I've not terribly fancied Stanislaus as a campsite because it feels too civilized within its homegrown wilderness and secondly it lacks any sort of view which people could enjoy (All other camp venues offered a view of the hills and valleys, even the Nuns Hill had a view of vehicles heading back to Bombay through the Stone Arches of Khandala. Although I didn't plan to visit camp I kept getting this strong urge to go up simply to drink a couple of beers with the K.B.A.
Saturday, after celebrating my Nieces Birthday and pretty close to midnight I found myself in a Qualis bound for Khandala. I'd earlier planned to camp out in the open but it was too warm to build a fire and besides Ryan offered to pick me up from Kamats. We rode back to camp on his hunk around 3 AM, sat up with the helpers for a while and then had to go insearch of other compan as they crashed out for the night. I later crawled intp Fr. Robins Jeep to escape the Mosquitoes.
Before Long I hear Fr. Robin Pottering about and surprised him by emerging from his Jeep. (I was only in touch with Nishtha about my Plan to run uo for the weekend and later Ryan so he wast expecting to see me there. We drank Coffee and spoke about the camp, the people and my plan to head to Pune for a bit. Later on we had a game of Throwball cum Volleyball with the campers mos t of whom were still recovering from the ravages of the Garden of Eden trek the previous day.
We had Sunday Mass at 11AM and then we all took a beer break. I was to go & drop Nishtha and Caroline to the Station as they were heading back to Mumbai and intended to use that as an opportunity to head to Pune to return the Trophy mount to Doolally & have a new trophy mounted in its place. (the trophy broke in transit)
I didn't spend much time in camp but it felt good to be back among the people and the place I love so much. Here too our K.B.A. and Doolally Tshirts drew a lot of attention...!!
I've not terribly fancied Stanislaus as a campsite because it feels too civilized within its homegrown wilderness and secondly it lacks any sort of view which people could enjoy (All other camp venues offered a view of the hills and valleys, even the Nuns Hill had a view of vehicles heading back to Bombay through the Stone Arches of Khandala. Although I didn't plan to visit camp I kept getting this strong urge to go up simply to drink a couple of beers with the K.B.A.
Saturday, after celebrating my Nieces Birthday and pretty close to midnight I found myself in a Qualis bound for Khandala. I'd earlier planned to camp out in the open but it was too warm to build a fire and besides Ryan offered to pick me up from Kamats. We rode back to camp on his hunk around 3 AM, sat up with the helpers for a while and then had to go insearch of other compan as they crashed out for the night. I later crawled intp Fr. Robins Jeep to escape the Mosquitoes.
Before Long I hear Fr. Robin Pottering about and surprised him by emerging from his Jeep. (I was only in touch with Nishtha about my Plan to run uo for the weekend and later Ryan so he wast expecting to see me there. We drank Coffee and spoke about the camp, the people and my plan to head to Pune for a bit. Later on we had a game of Throwball cum Volleyball with the campers mos t of whom were still recovering from the ravages of the Garden of Eden trek the previous day.
We had Sunday Mass at 11AM and then we all took a beer break. I was to go & drop Nishtha and Caroline to the Station as they were heading back to Mumbai and intended to use that as an opportunity to head to Pune to return the Trophy mount to Doolally & have a new trophy mounted in its place. (the trophy broke in transit)
I didn't spend much time in camp but it felt good to be back among the people and the place I love so much. Here too our K.B.A. and Doolally Tshirts drew a lot of attention...!!
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