Summertime dip in sea good for health
Calangute: A lot of people from various parts of north Goa have been flocking to Calangute in recent weeks, the preferred beach destination for Goans, for a bath of seawater which is said to be a health booster.
A summertime dip in the sea at Calangute beach saves money on going to the doctor, according to Pandurang Mayekar from Valpoi.
“It’s good for health. Otherwise you have to spend on doctors. A lot of people come to Calangute,” said Mayekar, who makes it a point to come once a year for his rendezvous with the Arabian Sea.
It lowers his blood pressure, Sitaram Pednekar from Dhargal said. Did his doctor tell him this? “No, but you can feel the difference. When you bathe in the seawater, the blood which is clogged starts flowing,” he said.
“It envigorates the body and improves blood circulation. Coming and having a bath of seawater at Calangute has become a habit for us over the years,” said Babal Gadekar from Velgeum.
Baga-Calangute is the perennial favourite they said. “Before there used to be fewer people in Baga,” Pednekar said about the changes over the years. “Now there’s more people. But the surroundings have improved, there are benches to sit. A lot of good hotels have opened,” he said, having come after a few years.
He, however, comes with a packed lunch from home. “The food in these hotels is for the moneyed people. Everything is expensive,” he said.
Earlier he and family would come and spend a couple of days at Baga, sleeping in the shelter of the holy cross structures, but now they come on a day trip and go back by 7pm.
