Blue Mountain

 

Blue Mountain

                  While searching some files . I suddenly came across few pictures which I shot long back, in Australia, where I had gone to meet my son and was there for about four months, he, spared sometimes from his official duties and was able  to show me almost half of that country by driving me all the way in his car by making  family trips. My eyes were wide open to see the lusciousness of that country, its surroundings and pristine landscapes.

         The population of that country is 2.51 crores only, and its size is almost three times bigger than our country, so think the vast differences as, I seldom find overcrowded places or public transports. Footpaths are meant for pedestrians only and you can’t find any hawkers to make the road narrow. So in this way one of Sunny’s friend who live in Sydney had gone somewhere for a week and so his flat was in our possession for a brief period so we shifted there for a week from New Castle and in this way a trip was planned to visit Blue Mountain a place called Kutumba about 150 Kms from Sydney. And one fine morning we set out for the same. But we were not so lucky, as the trip was badly marred by bad weather. It was dense fog, torrential rain and the visibility was very low causing complete blanket over the mountain. But the advantage was the beautiful small hilly place Kutumba, its every road and street were fully surrounded by very colorful flowers with neat and clean surroundings.

           The day which we had gone to Kutumba that was the day of locale market and lot of activities were going on. So in this way I came across a very funny person (Robert JP Spitz) who was director of Blue Mountain Limousines and a wedding planner who use to lent vintage Limousines 1929 model, and other equipments for marriage or any other functions purpose as he said. So it was his car which attracted my eye balls and I snapped few shots. The vintage car was also blue in color and dazzling.  As I was taking shots of the car the man interrupted and firstly he stopped me then after persuasion he again allowed. In the mean time hesitantly I requested him to have a glimpse of the interiors of his prized vehicle. But he denied first and lately he said where your bride is? I was completely taken aback then I humorlessly said I have one but she is as old as me, will it work? But he smiled and readily allowed me to have a glimpse of the interiors of his prized item which were neatly cleaned and polished. As the weather was against us, so we decided to move around in the car and after lunch we set out for Sydney but to my dismay after travelling about 50 kms I found the sky clear and the skyline of the Sydney was visible from 10 Kms distance.

                Before retirement blues catches me, I decided to interact with my friends by inking my thoughts to ward off that menace, in a hope they will like it.

Text and Photo by- Ashok Karan.

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