I think I may have been to the best beach I've ever been to today. I'm aware that that's a pretty grand statement. But it was a pretty good beach. It was pinned between the sea and a lagoon. Backed by palm-coated hills. Uncommercialised and largely empty. You had to work to get there mind, a quarter of an hour down a perilous, unmade road, which probably goes some way towards explaining the emptiness.
I'm in Goa. At the Palolem Beach end, which is a lot more like Thailand than anywhere else I've seen in India. Palolem wasn't the beach by the way. Palolem is far from uncommercial. It's still a pretty good beach though.
As I'm in a tourist, area I've been doing the tourist thing: sea kayaking; a boat trip; drinking beer. We should probably linger on the boat trip. I was promised dolphin-monkey-butterfly (which is an animal I was looking forward to seeing - I wanted to see how it would swing through trees using fins) but got nothing. Butterfly Bay is the biggest misnomer of the lot, I was expecting to be swamped by butterflies. Have them pecking at my soft bits with their butterfly toungues. But no. There are no butterflies there. It's shaped like a butterfly. What a con?
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