Riari [Redi] Bay, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Landscape Photography Entrance to creek which runs by the outer north walls of the fort. In 1793 the country ship ‘Myrtle’ officered only by Europeans from Mangalore to Larwar with a cargo of rice, was seized by Khem Savant’s gallevats and taken into the creek and despoiled. They boasted...
Bombay Harbour, Karanja Island. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Landscape Photography Curious tree on Karanjah foreshore brought down by wave erosion but still half alive. Framed through the salt bleached branches is an India milkmaid and her half starved cow.
Belikan [Belekan], The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography Tadri town is around the bend, inside the bar of the river. Rajamundrug fort is across the water on the western heights. As timber was abundant here (floated down the river from the forests) ship-building was at one time a local industry.
Kumpta Anchorage, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography Kumpta Anchorage on the rocky point was for merely a small redoubt. The Traveller’s Bungalow is at the lower end. Another glorious stretch of sand reaches as far as Honowar. An open roadstead in Fair Season only, during which it is served by the cargo-cum-passenge...
Jaigad to Tiveri, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Landscape Photography Over the cliffs and down along the sands. Every now and again the balsamic essence of the cashew nut tree scents the air. Sandkhol Point in the distance.