Rooting For Posterity

July 10, 2016July 10, 2016Aruna@RipplesnReflections

This was during a family vacation we took a couple of years back to Andamans. As we were planning the day’s itinerary with our guide, he said Ross Island is a waste of time. But we were keen to go….and I never regretted the decision.

It’s an unique island presently almost abandoned….but the old buildings and the amazing Roots have a story to tell. They do not even need the various boards and markings to make you imagine a world gone by with large spacious ballrooms, a majestic church and gardens and grounds for the Administrative Officers when it served as a kind of headquarters. It was struck by an earthquake in 1941 and abandoned thereafter.

The way the roots have overgrown the massive buildings lending them an unique identity rarely seen… its taken an eon for them to reach the beauty they radiate …… like the wrinkles on an old sun beaten face each one with story to tell ………

So here it is….. stories of an era gone by whispered amongst the roots and ruins of ROSS Island……

FB_IMG_1468144016028 — The Amazing Roots!

FB_IMG_1468144049446 — Dwarfed by the Roots

FB_IMG_1468144096383 — The church a magnificent backdrop

FB_IMG_1468144006620 — Soaking in the sunshine and the character

FB_IMG_1468144129351 — The Bluest Blue I’ve ever seen

For Posterity

rajivkrishnan57 July 10, 2016 / 7:14 pm

Lovely piece, lovely place, lovely pictures and lovely captions …

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- Aruna@RipplesnReflections July 10, 2016 / 8:11 pm
  
  Thanks for the constant support😃
  
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suranch July 10, 2016 / 8:05 pm

Verrrrrry apt pics !!!!!

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- Aruna@RipplesnReflections July 10, 2016 / 8:58 pm
  
  Thanks Anu….. you must visit whenever you can…….
  
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Trinity July 10, 2016 / 8:08 pm

I’d be the first to join such a tour – when a guide tries to steer me away from anywhere, my curiosity grows. I love abandoned places, and the stories they tell!

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- Aruna@RipplesnReflections July 10, 2016 / 9:00 pm
  
  Good idea….
  
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Pete July 10, 2016 / 8:50 pm

Thanks for taking me to a beautiful place I never knew existed.

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Aruna@RipplesnReflections July 10, 2016 / 8:59 pm

Trudat!! And yes , I too love such places….

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Dr B Narayana naik July 14, 2016 / 3:50 pm

Very nice. All pictures are beautiful. And captions are very apt for the picture

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likhitha July 17, 2016 / 10:52 pm

I think that will be the scariest place at nights .but still an interesting place to visit.

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