Milind Thumbe, a 56-year-old Indian Naval veteran, has seen the fantastic thing about Indian coasts from the ocean. Throughout his working days, he had this concept of seeing the coast from the land. He joined Shriram Kondhawekar, an engineer-turned-photographer, on a biking mission to cowl 6,800 km throughout the shoreline of India. The duo is at present in Chennai and is heading in direction of Visakhapatnam someday later. “Our Indian coastal biking expedition is to unfold consciousness of sustainable journey, hazards of plastic air pollution alongside the shoreline and promote a match way of life. We began the journey on November 14 from Goa. We lined your entire coastal area of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu – we cycled by way of Udupi, Mangalore, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kanniyakumari, Rameswaram, Tuticorin, Velankanni, Chidamabaram, Puducherry and Chennai. From Chennai, we can be going to Visakhapatnam, Kolkata and from there, we’ll ship our bikes to Kutch in Gujarat. After our biking expedition in Gujarat, we’ll return to Mumbai after which Goa. We’re planning to complete the journey by the primary week of March,” says Shriram Kondhawekar.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports activities has formally recognised their expedition below the Match India Motion. Talking extra concerning the function of the biking tour, he tells us, “Being a self-sustainable journey, we have now to plan for our catering provision on the go. We supply the cooking gear and cook dinner as many meals as doable utilizing the out there uncooked supplies. As a backup, we’re additionally carrying dehydrated meals specifically sourced for the expedition. We’ve got seen lots of single-use plastic dumped on Indian seashores; sadly, all these find yourself within the sea. If individuals can not scale back it, we’re urging them to seek out methods to reuse wrappers, empty bottles, and many others,” he provides.