Flying Fox Thru Waterfall @ Tamhini Ghat..

It was 5.15 AM, when my cell rang; the call was from an unknown number. I picked up the call & before I could say anything, I heard the following sentence -

Hi Amol, I will be waiting for you at INFOSYS Circle at 6.30 am.

I was about to say something and the call got disconnected. But I was able to figure out the following things from that call -

The other person in the call was a girl.

She was in a great hurry.

I was confused; lots of questions came into my mind – 

Who was she?

Why she called me?

Why she will be waiting for me?

Before I could get the answers of all these questions, I saw my Adventurizants T-Shirt hanging in front of me on the rope, which I washed last night for my today’s trek. In a second, all my confusion came to the result that, the call was from one of the participants of today’s trek, 

Flying Fox Thru Waterfall @ Tamhini Ghat.

But the question was – Who is SHE?

As usual I woke up half an hour late. I finished all my morning activities like etc, etc.. & called the drivers to reach the boarding points on time. Meanwhile, I received 2-3 other calls from another participants for the same. The driver of the bus, which has to start from my room, called me and I boarded the bus. I told the driver to take the bus directly to Infosys circle, as I was eager to see that girl, who called me early morning.

After reaching there, I walked out of the bus. There were 3-4 girls who boarded the bus. Just to confirm that the same girl has boarded the bus, I called back on that number. Unfortunately, the number was switched-off.

I was about to ask those 3-4 girls, but I thought to wait for another bus, which joined us in next 10 mins (I was thinking that the girl might have boarded the another bus at previous stops). There I met the most awaited person from our core team, Rajendra Ronge. Both the buses started, we did our formal introduction with Idli-Chatani breakfast and then it was the time for our favorite Antakshari.

After 2 hrs of journey (Antakshari), we reached at the decided spot where the Flying fox activity has to be done. As soon as I stepped out of the bus, my eye-sight stopped at such a beautiful waterfall. I just pinched myself to make sure that I am witnessing this creative Nature’s beauty & to make it memorable my friend Amit helped me this way.

We walked towards the activity point, where Jayant Sir  was waiting for us. In next 5 mins, Jayant  explained all the necessary details that needed to be considered while doing the activity. Everyone listened him carefully, and ignored in the same manner. There were two different arrangements made for completing the activity, considering the count of 80 people and doing the same activity on single rope may have taken the long time. Some of us were very eager to do the activity, while few were little conscious and wanted to make sure that everything is working fine. I went 4th; completed the activity and Amit again clicked a nice one! 

After completing the activity, it was a time for Lunch. I had my favorite Shrikhand. By the time we were about to complete our lunch, the Mumbai team also joined us, who did the activity after having the lunch.

While having lunch, I heard the ring-tone of my mobile. This time it was a miss call; but it was from the same number. Suddenly, a different kind of enthusiasm was there within me and I started searching for that girl in all directions. All the girls were busy in having their lunch; no one had mobile in their hands. I called that number and again the same answer - Number is switched-off.

Before I get out of this, one of my friend asked to come and help them to take out the bus which was jammed into the mud.

After doing such a hard-work, it was a time for little rest. Then, me and Rajendra did some trekking; slipped through the way and finally reached the waterfall. It was far away from us, but still it was worth to get a sight of it. We clicked some photos there and returned to our bus.

Now, it was the time for Antakshari rather than our return-journey. Also, it was time to depart from Tamhini-waterfalls; it’s beauty.

We reached at Infosys circle by 6.30 PM; some people left the bus whoever boarded from the same spot. I came to the another bus; reached home around 7.30 pm.

As soon as I reached home, I got a message saying that - “Thank you very much Amol. It was a nice experience, especially getting interacted with you. Thanks a lot again for arranging such a nice trip!!!” 

No need to mention that the message was from the which number; but this time I didn't call-back, because you know it will be switched-off again.