New Year's Eve: Dancing away to the new year (BTW, that's not me).
 

New Year's Eve: A close-up of my boom-box.
 

New Year's Eve: Our digital DJ getting set up. Notice the mood lighting and the speakers blasting away to the trance/techno beats. (The blue lights in the speakers are directly proportional to the Bass) 

Beach road at night. Festive lighting during Dusshera. 

Sunset in Puri. Note that Puri is in the east coast so can't catch the sun in the sea. 

 

Fair weather skies at Puri. You can see a half-moon in the centre. 

In the middle of Chilka lake. The thunderstorm brewing on the horizon hit us in 30 minutes and suddenly our pleasure cruise was an all-out adventure with driving sheets of rain and lightning bolts falling all around. 

Tiny little boat in deep blue waters. 

All in a day's work. Fishermen tending to their nets. 

Long beaked bird ... maybe a kingfisher. 

Sand art by local artists. This was done in memory of the quake victimes. 

Yet another one. In this one I was able to capture the Sun's reflection on the water. 

Another sunrise picture. 

Sunrise at Puri beach. I must have seen very few sunrises during my time ;-) This one ranks right at the top.