Beaches along Shriwardhan coast

The Shriwardhan taluka of Raigad district is entirely located along the Arabian Sea coastline beginning from Dighi village in the north to Harihareshwar village in the south. Until quite recently barring Diveagar and Harihareshwar, the beaches were unknown to tourist (even those too were famous only because of historic temples). Although the beaches are still good, but they could soon become non-visit material due to port activities and tourist commercialization.

Despite a major part of the coastline being rocky or cliff filled, there are several sandy seashores. Am listing down the places I visited although there are quite a few more (Dighi, Sarve, Velas & Harihareshwar were skipped).

Adgaon Beach

Nice, clean and virgin beach with northern half full of rocks and southern of creamy white sand. Several of the rocks are sharp due to growth of Barnacles.

Beach is quite wide enough.

We went during evening and had the beach completely to ourselves…all 36 of us.

Water was safe enough to drench without any pulling effects.

Had huge quantities of shells of several Mollusk many of them alive.

At southern end there was a huge shoal of sea-gulls in several thousand numbers. Looked like they had formed another gull beach next to the sand beach. I really miss my camera now, stupid mobile cameras have no zoom at all.
Road along the beach is driving pleasure. Actually much of these internal roads are driving pleasure.
Exhausted ourselves playing football till after sunset.
Just a caution: Immediately post sunset head straight out of the beach. It gets really dark quickly and you won't be able to find your stuff.
Also note that the beach is really virgin with absolutely no facilities for anything, in fact no human around at all.

Diveagar Beach

If you need a balance of civilization and a good beach, head straight here.
No wonder it’s probably the most commercialized beach. However, even then the beach is clean. Expect loads of people here during weekends.

There are several facilities here: food, drink, lodging, water sports, sand sports, you name it.
Beach itself is very wide, long and of light brownish-white sand. Water is usually very far away because of the huge width of the beach.

In between Bharadkol and Kate villages

From Diveagar, take the internal sea facing road to Shrivardhan and you’ll have a beautiful drive to remember. For best experience: hire a driver.
The sea is enchanting that you will certainly stare out at it for several seconds. And even though thankfully there’s next to no traffic on this road, the road are pretty curvy, hilly and narrow.

So you could end up hurting yourself. Best advice is take stops every 5 minutes and enjoy the views.

Drive between Rev-Danda and Murud-Janjira is even better than this.

Shekadi Beach

Shekadi village has a small, narrow and white sand beach along the road. We didn't stop here so no photos. Just this one photo of an island jutting out of the sea.

Aaravi Beach

Aaravi is another virgin clean beach with white sand. The sun had risen when we approached it from the hills, the sand glittering along with the sea.

This is best part of drive with the beach continuously on your side while driving without any obstructions. Absolutely necessary to take a stopover and it should be at some broad straight road. Avoid any stopovers along narrow or curvy parts.
Aaravi and Adgaon both are the best beaches along the coast. However, the sea-shell life here was much less.









Designs carpeted on the sand by small crabs:

Shrivardhan Beach

Probably the lowest rated beach as per my criteria, although facility wise it should be the best being the taluka capital. Has a long boardwalk with seating which is kept clean and also lighted at night.
Since we went in morning hardly anyone was present. But am sure in evening this place must be lighted up with people, vendors and sports.