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For them surfing is a child’s play
As everyone knows doing surfing costs a pretty penny besides being equipped with right stuff to tame the waves, but for the children of fishing community surfing, if one can call it, is a cost-less affair as they goof-off their Sundays happily at a sea shore near Peda Jalaripeta in Visakhapatnam.
Visakhapatnam: As everyone knows doing surfing costs a pretty penny besides being equipped with right stuff to tame the waves, but for the children of fishing community surfing, if one can call it, is a cost-less affair as they goof-off their Sundays happily at a sea shore near Peda Jalaripeta in Visakhapatnam.
Highlights:
- As Sunday approaches, around 30 to 40 children, aged eight to 14 years get ready with their self-made surfboards to take on the waves
- This activity might not look like a professional surfing, but these kids term it as Jalaripeta style of surfing
As Sunday approaches, around 30 to 40 children, aged eight to 14 years get ready with their self-made surfboards to take on the waves.
This activity might not look like a professional surfing, but these kids termed it as Jalaripeta style of surfing.“Every one of us makes our own two or three feet surfboards for which we gather thermocol, sticks and plastic bags from here and there. We cut the thermocol in a way to shape it like the front side of the boat. To complete this task it takes two days,” explains Dhanaraj of Class IV studying in a private school.
They say no other activity would give them so much of fun like surfing and venturing into waters. “Anyone, who joins us, first learn swimming by playing with waters and later comes for doing surfing. We don’t enjoy cricket as much as water sports,” says Durga Prasad of Class VI studying in a municipality school.
The kids, who never want to miss their connection with the sea, enjoy surfing from 8 am to 12 pm on Sundays, holidays and during summer.
They surfing near Peda Jalaripeta and is least explored by the visitors and other people in the city unlike other beaches. However, the presence of fishing folk is very much visible due to livelihood activity and also the children reside in the nearby colony.
None of us would disturb them while they play with waters, but we keep a tab on them to warn whenever they move more into sea, said Shankar, a fisherman.
To give similar flavour of experiences to other people, Andhra Pradesh Tourism Department is introducing variety of water sports at Mangamarpeta and Rushikonda on a public-private partnership (PPP) mode.
By Y Abhishek Paul
