DAILY PHOTO: Coracles on the Kaveri

Taken in August of 2022 near Talakadu

POEM: Coracle

coracles twisting

 a placid river drifting

marine dervishes


[National Poetry Month: Poem #4]

DAILY PHOTO: Coracle in the Distance

Taken in November of 2013 at Hampi

Taken in November of 2013 at Hampi

DAILY PHOTO: Coracle Captain

Taken in November of 2013 at Hampi

Taken in November of 2013 at Hampi.

This 89 pound man rowed tourists (usually weighing much more than 89 pounds a piece–and sometimes including five or six per group) upstream, and then float them back downstream.  He was definitely putting his back into it.