The Great Outing (Trip to Anandadhama) Day 2 - Part Four

The next activity was Tarzan Swing, this time there was a twist in it. This is not a single swing this time. It was a double swing that we are supposed to make. Start from the stand take the first swing and reach back the stand again. It was a tough one of course and there was a preliminary elimination for this round on safety precautions. We had to jump from the ground and had to touch the stand with our two legs to qualify for the double swing. We were all given two chances to qualify. My first attempt was a failure didn’t quite make it and I made it in the second attempt. Our hero crocodile hunter didn’t qualify even after taking four attempts. We all found it difficult to do that but somehow I managed to complete the double swing. Crocodile hunter came to the stand saying he is gonna take single swing and he surprised all of us by completing second swing, Man he has guts. Most of our guys didn’t make it and Ponnanna was the fellow to complete double swing thrice I guess. [Picture 1 Ponnanna making his Jump, Picture 2 Crocodile Hunter in Action]

We then moved to the next activity archery and it was amazing and the arrows were a little bent I guess so our fellows found it difficult to shoot it at the bull’s eye. Everyone was given three arrows and those who hit the yellow circle gets two more arrows and those who hits the inner red circle gets five more shots. Most of the guys didn’t make it and Ponnanna hit the yellow circle twice. Then since to cut off the delay we all agreed that we will hit only three arrows each. We finished it off and few people who finished archery went for the ditch jump. I stayed back at archery decided to take the chance at the end so that I can get few more hits I thought. I didn’t fire any arrow even near the yellow circle, I also took one more arrow and tried but the results were the same. Then I rushed to the Ditch Jump. It was like Tarzan Swing, only difference was there was water between the areas to be crossed if you don’t make it correct you will drench yourself with water. No one was able to cross us other than one person, the person who crossed it successfully was our Crocodile Hunter and of course there was other person who too crossed it successfully but it was the demo given my Madhesh, who works there in the resort assisting Santhosh. We felt good by drenching ourselves in the water. I think I fell six times into the water and Srikanth was leading us all he dived in some eight times I guess. [Picture 3 Crocodile Hunter in Action,Picture 4 Ditch Jump]

We didn’t have gun shooting session but we guys took lot of pictures with the rifle (it was almost like a miniature rifle). Nagarjun, Dhanasekar, Vijay, Sudhakar, Prasadth and of course myself were the top guys with guns. [Picture 5 Dhanasekar in Action]

Then we all rushed to the river bank got our Life Jackets and jumped into the river. Only few of us knew swimming and the others were with the confidence of having life jacket jumped into the river. We all were enjoying it and it really went for a long time. After around some one and a half hours, we got ourselves out of the water and went to our rooms. We packed our things, came to the dinning room and had our lunch. We then boarded the bus and everybody dozed off immediately. The return journey didn’t take too much of time we reached very early than what was planned. There were few great photographers Jegan, Manoj, Nikunj, Srikanth and Santhosh. They did cover near to a hundred pictures totally. Jegan, alone took 522 pictures. It was the most unforgettable outing I ever had or I should say we ever had. [Picture 6 we guys in the water, Picture 7 having Lunch]