Bombay & the Coast

Travel · Mumbai and the west coast · 2026

My own record of Bombay and the coast at Dahanu, and the way I see and romanticise them.

Dozens of small boats moored in a hazy harbour at dusk
Harbour, evening
People sitting along the curving sea wall of Marine Drive, in black and white
Marine Drive
Stacks of secondhand books piled high at a street stall
Pavement library
A shop window above a planter box of green leaves
Happy Threads
A red-domed heritage building in warm afternoon light
Red dome
The carved stone Gateway of India against a dark sky, in black and white
Gateway
Commuters crowded at the open door of a local train, in black and white
Local train
Low sun flaring through a taxi windshield in evening traffic
Windshield sun
A man standing in a narrow shaded lane beside a tiled wall
Back lane
A shaded side street opening onto a sunlit road and a passing blue bus
Side street
Young women playing on rope swings tied to trees on a beach
Rope swings
A girl in red swinging on a rope against the bright sea
Swing, backlit
Morning sun streaming between palm trees beside a quiet building
Palm light
A bare foot pressing into dark sand
Footprint
The evening sun breaking through haze over dark, rolling waves, in black and white
Sun on the sea