Trivandrum (So. Kerala) India - January 14th, 2007

This morning I went to Kovalam beach, Kerala's most popular beach side resort, with good beaches a lush and peaceful palm and paddy setting. Kovalam consists of two coves, Lighthouse beach and Hawah beach.
On one side there are a lot of fishermen, who get all lined up and pull from the rope syncronized while chanting, as the nets get closer to shore. These were huge nets and I thought thousands of fish would be trapped on them. But to my surpirse, there were only about one dozen small fish in it. So sad... so many men, so much work and time and effort, just to get so little for that big ocean. They still were cheerful but I was devastated about the whole picture. Some people explained to me that this is the low fishing season (from March on is the raining season and is when they get a lot of fish). The sunami also has to do with the decrease of fish.
After watching all that for almost two hours, I wasn't able to enjoy the beach, my heart was very sad for them.
I returned to Trivandrum and went to see a Guru movie, but it had nothing to do with what I was expecting, besides being in Hindi language, so I left halfways into the film.