Kudlee beach is an isolated arc of beach, 20-30 min walk from Gokarna main town, 10-15min to walk from end to end, passing countless little “Hotels” resturants with cabanas behind them, that mostly serve the same mix of cuisines on a menu 4-8pgs long: Indian basics, Italian pizzas and pastas, continental breakfast (though more yogurt than meat), and some strain of Chinese cooking that I only half follow.
But more to the point, it has a beauty of natural landscape that is hard to beat. Also a bit hard to photograph, though I’ve been doing my damnedest. What no camera can capture though is the night sky. The beach stretches broadly to both sides; the sea amenably follows suit as it roars and crashes ceaselessly, its shimmering depths cutting of the sky at the horizon, which itself is book-ended by two hills. Tonight we will light up a bonfire and thus the Four Elements will all be passionately present. But as I collapse back onto my neck I find that sea and beach and surrounding hills are merely side players, supporting and framing broadly and openly a densely populated firmament that dazzles my sense of earthliness.
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