Trip to Morbe Dam

Monsoons in Shyadris are always awesome. Especially the village side is lush green, with hills all around, numerous waterfalls, rainy wet roads and the garama garam snacks. This time I wanted to go somewhere on National Highway 4. Nothing was specific in my mind. Me and Sapana, decided to take a bike ride from Navi Mumbai to somewhere near to karjat. I was looking for smooth and green drive on NH4 and Sapana was looking for waterfall. We all started on Sunday noon, packed very small bag and camera. Besides we took no raincoats but a small umbrella with us. Now this is very risky in rainy season around the areas of Mumbai Pune. Rain could start at any moment. But my entire plan was to get wet, so we were never worried. The journey started from Thane on Sunday noon around 1 pm. Our first stop was Panvel MacDonalds. We had quick burgers and then set for NH4. As soon as we had crossed Panvel, roads became cleaner, without potholes, four lanes with divider. Green trees on both sides of road and mountains at distant. Everything was just green. The drive on bike was just awesome. But all in all, our back and bum started aching as we move forward. The lonavala climb was in sight about 25 km. Then suddenly we read a tiny board about a DAM. We made a U-turn and went for it. It was Morbe dam, we never had heard of. But we took some unknown inspiration and both decided to go there. We were expecting nothing special, but at the first site a placid lake water view gave us cheers. It was slightly raining, two distant foggy mountains and tranquil shallow water in front of us. It was calm around. I spent few minutes looking at the mountains, lake and dam. The experience was very peaceful. Not many people were around, no garbage, no stinking smell, nothing but a calm romantic view handshaking of nature and man made figure. We spent about an hour at this place, went back with short fond memories about this small trip.