Chennai beach walk

 

I stayed in the southern end of Chennai and walked to the closest beach, Foreshore Estate.

I passed under tall shady trees, dilapidated footpaths and cows searching for something to eat before I arrived at a long, wide stretch of beach. This sandy coastline would have been a joy to visit before the invention of plastic. Fishing boats nestled in the sand. Fishers idled in the shade of their boats or untangled their nets.

Ecuador’s coastal Puerto Lopez

Our bus to this lay back location, journeyed through dryer landscape. When we arrived at the coastal town, a flotilla of fishing boats bobbed off shore.