Bordi

I'll remember my trip to Bordi for two things. For one, when we went to the beach to enjoy the water, we found out, much to our dismay that the tide had receded so much that the waves could not even be seen at the horizon. Determined to check out as till where the tide had receded, we started walking towards the waters. We walked on for what seemed to be like minutes and minutes. When we finally reached the water, I felt like I had walked miles. If I hadnt known better, I would have assumed that I have reached a middle eastern or an african country from the coastline of konkan, just by walking !!! The second thing for which I would remember the trip would be because of the fun time we had, even though we didnt see much of the sea. Bordi is a coastal town in the dahanu region. It is almost on the maharashtra gujarat border. It is near the town of Sanjan, which is one of the earliest parsi settlement in india. In fact, it is said that the parsis (native persians, iran was earlier known as persia) came by boat from persia and landed somewhere near this very town of sanjan where they settled.
Predictably, Bordi has a lot of parsis, apart from the gujarati population.
For our trip, we started off from our homes at around 11 in the morning. It was the beginning of a long weekend and hence no one wanted to move their lazy asses by earlier than 11 o'clock. There were four of us.....Rohit, me, Irfan and Rohan. It was in rohan's car that we made our journey. From Thane-Ghodbunder road to dahisar check naka, we made our way to the western express highway. After paying around half a dozen tolls on the way, we stopped near a 'vithal kamath' hotel on the highway, near the Palghar turn. Food was good, service was quick. After lunch, I took the steering wheel. We made a left at charoti village, went towards dahanu. From dahanu to Gholwad there was a small regular road, but with lot of potholes. It seemed like I was taking the car through all the potholes !!! But then, to be fair, it wasnt that way. The road was full of them and I wanted to reach bordi as fast as possible, as we did not know the distance. We reached gholwad, which is the last major railway station in north konkan, before gujarat. From Gholwad to Bordi the road was a coastal one, beautiful and scenic, every bit of it offering a view of the sea, or otherwise surrounded by palm trees, or by arching banyan trees, or upright sur trees. We arrived at Bordi at around 3 PM. Checked into a hotel. After chillaxing in the evening with a walk on the beach (there was no water as the tide had receded and we walked towards the horizon in search of water !!!), we came back to the hotel room at around 7 PM. Then we watched TV, had baths and then went out for dinner. We had some very good and tasty fried fish and then finished it off with some sev puri, chinese food and ice creams. We came back to our room, stretched out on the beds. We watched an old rajesh khanna flick and laughed at his absurd style of dancing and discussed how mumtaz (actress in that flick) was one of the sexiest actress of those times !!! We went to sleep after some chatting and woke up after a very good sleep.
Thing to be noted about Bordi, is that, its a very quiet place. I wont make false praises by saying that the beach is beautiful. In fact, its quite unclean. Bordi has quite a lot of schools and colleges. My grandfather was educated in a school in Bordi. On the way back, I took some pictures of his school and its playground. Something for my grandpa to remember 'the times'.
As for me, I record this post as something for me to remember 'the times'. The times when I am having the maximum fun with friends, the kind of times which I dont think have come in the past and the kind of times, I dont think will come again ever after in my lifetime.
We came back to mumbai at around 4 PM in the evening, on the next day. Didnt get to see what we wanted to, didnt get to see something upto our expectations, but still had a lot of fun, nevertheless !!!!