THE WHARF ROAD @ KAKINADA

Kakinada is the city planned and developed along the western side of the Bay of Bengal endowed with a natural harbor which facilitates an anchorage port and a deep-water port. I felt pleased for the many changes in the past two decades: the city has become a hub for deep sea fishing and boat-making industry and a thriving tourist destination.

Kakinada is one of the largest cities and the district headquarters of East Godavari, in Andhra Pradesh, India. It was a former Dutch settlement. It’s the city planned and developed along the western side of the Bay of Bengal endowed with a natural harbor which facilitates an anchorage port and a deep-water port.

I was on a three-day family visit and one early morning, I set out with my photo gear to the backwaters – a canal precisely, named Buckingham canal where the boats stand anchored along the old wharf road.

I had been to Kakinada, maybe, hundreds of visits, over past decades, but never ventured into the realm of the city’s famed fisherman and their boating vessels and people propelling them from behind.