207) FRIDAY, 20 JANUARY 1978 : 0KMS. -
VAGATOR BEACH
Here come the
Hippies of GOA !
From CALANGUTE BEACH, we drove to the north. I was walking down the ANJUNA beach, where there were some hippies relaxing and sunbathing. From what I heard and saw, I assumed they were American, French, Italian, German, British and etc... Then we followed the coast trying to find a beach with less hippies or no people but could not find any. We reached finally VAGATOR BEACH and we still had the same sight of a lot of hippies having sunbathing on the beach and swimming.
From CALANGUTE BEACH, we drove to the north. I was walking down the ANJUNA beach, where there were some hippies relaxing and sunbathing. From what I heard and saw, I assumed they were American, French, Italian, German, British and etc... Then we followed the coast trying to find a beach with less hippies or no people but could not find any. We reached finally VAGATOR BEACH and we still had the same sight of a lot of hippies having sunbathing on the beach and swimming.
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It
was near dinner
time, we thought it
would be nice to park overnight here. After parking, we walked
around the beach area and saw that this was a genuine
settlement of hippies. There were camping vehicles parked in the lot and
along the foothills around
a beach. The area was full of huts made
from coconut palm leaves, lots of hippy crowds walked to and fro busily,
including many little children were
there, too. Most of them barely wearing
something on their bodies. We
felt a bit awkward and uneasy being dressed
as usual !!
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As observed, I thought that these hippies were "well-being",
they had money to spend and loved a simple life. They were not quite different from the people in the Stone Age !!? Sleeping in sleeping bags on the sand or the
ground (some slept on the beach), under sheds of
dry coconut palm leaf huts, inside of
which there were fire
pits for cooking or grilled fishes
(that they might be able to catch). In the afternoon, they should go out to collect firewood or dry coconut to make a fire and might sit and relax, while smoking marijuana.
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During the daytime, they just
let time pass, enjoyed naked sunbathing or swimming. They should not be anxious
to see the
end of the day, no one seemed being worried. I saw many groups of
2-5 people living together and everyone
seems to be on his own. Each did not care about
others. Some earned pocket money by baking a special cake
mixed with marijuana or banana pancake for sale, in
spite of some local stores
were already existed.
