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After staying at the resort we moved to Lighthouse Beach.  This was a black sand beach - it was so neat!!   One of our new friends lives in that area so he and Adam went surfing!  The water was AWESOME!  The temperature was great and it was so clear!  You can see how clear it is in the pic below... you can see the surfer duck-diving under a wave - so cool! :) Chili peppers and lemons on the beach...  This is Lighthouse Beach.  It's a small crescent shaped beach that I loved!  Here's a nice little man that was selling stuff on the beach :)  This lady was selling fruit... it was fun to get fresh fruit on the beach :)  This beach had a lot of damage from the Tsunami of 2004, but it is all fixed up now!  I had a Lemon Lassi - it was super tart but really good!!!  ... a guy selling drums on the beach... that's a normal thing to sell on the beach right? :)  This is how many of the locals t...

 This was probably the most interesting part of being on the beach in Kerala for me!  Every morning these guys would go out on the beach and fish.  I had never seen fishermen fish like this before!  I first walked out to the beach and saw a rope with some men holding on to it.  I was intrigued and watched for hours.  I tried to figure out what kind of fishing they were doing and I'm still a little unsure, but I think they are using dragnets....  Anyway, at the beginning there were two lines of guys holding on to two ropes that were VERY far apart.  I didn't know they were connected to the same net until much later in the morning.    As the morning went on, one of the guys (seemed like a senior guy that was in charge) went out in the water to check on the status of the fish and nets and to start "organizing the net".    It's hard to see in this picture, but this is later in the morning but you can see how huge the ...

 At the beginning of October we went on a vacation to Kerala!  Our ultimate destination was the beach, but we wanted to check out the Capital as well, so we spent the first couple of days there (seen in the picture above).  Our awesome friends Keith & Carie met us there!  It was so awesome to see them!  They are awesome friends :) One of the first things we did was go to a famous palace and temple.  The temple is very interesting!!!!  Only Hindus are allowed entry, so we weren't allowed in, but just being outside of it was very interesting.  Everyone that goes inside has to wear either a Sari or a Dhoti .  A sari is what the women are wearing in this picture...a 6 meter piece of fabric wrapped around themselves.  The men are wearing dhotis... A dhoti is a 4.5 meter unstiched piece of fabric that men wrap around themselves (in many different ways) and tie at the waist...  There were stations at the temple where you c...