Saturday, February 28, 2009

Hulimavu Kere(Lake), Bangalore



I didn't know about this lake long time after I moved in to this neighborhood. I chanced upon this lake when I was cycling around what used to be a dirt track which was a off-road route downhill. But when I stopped cycling, I stopped going near the lake as well. This is a reasonably big lake in the Hulimavu Village(now part of BBMP) off Bannerghatta Road.

Later on, when I started running, I was looking for quiet trails after I fell on the main road once, this turned out to be an obvious choice and the roads around the lake were asphalted as well.
Usually I finish before the sunrise except may be during my long runs where I catch a good view of the sun rising above the lake. I have been thinking of taking pictures of the beautiful sunrise for a while, but my cellphone camera is just an ordinary one. Finally, I walked up this morning to the lakeside on top and snapped it up.

Unlike most of the other lakes in Bangalore, there is plenty of water in the lake. It looks there is plenty of fish also in it and the hyacinths are being removed by someone as well. You can spot big birds as well and ducks are plenty in the lake.

But like the other lakes, this is being used by people around as an open toilet. If you can ignore that part of it, you can enjoy the runs around the lake. The roads are good with very little traffic and people. There is a good gradient from the lakeside towards Bannerghatta Road near Meenakshi Temple which is a good place to do some hillwork as well.

There many new apartment complexes coming around the place and some of them will have this great view of the lakeside and sunrise. However, people dump waste and mud in the lake on many sides which can eat up the lake in due course like many of the lakes in town. There doesn't seem to be any clearly marked boundary for the lake which makes people to encroach it easily. Hopefully the lake remains as it is with all the developments around.

Below is the map of the location, which is my usual running route of around 4K.

Posted by Jayadeep(JDP) at 11:12 AM

6 comments:

  1. oh wow. Nice to come across hulimavu kere on net. I used to swim, go fishing, catch crabs and what not in hulimavu kere. hehehe. :o)
    -Lobo
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  2. Good of you to write about this lake. We used to catch small fish ther when we were kids. Now the lake is shrinking albit slowly. One advantage that this lake has is that it is at a lower elevation than the surrounding area which helps it to retain water better than the near by Arekere lake which is totaly encroached upon and fast drying up even though there is a BBMP office bang opposite to it!
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  3. r u sure we can fish in here...i been looking for spot to sit n fish...however i an finding places where u gotta pay for it...which makes no sense...i ll try making it to this spot this weekend.....
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  4. I guess the fishing rights have been sold by the corporation to some private party, who makes money out of the fish. So they may not allow others to fish.
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  5. I would like to know if the water in Hulimavu lake is salty or sweet
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  6. Since its an open toilet, no idea about the taste of water ;-) ;-)..
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