About Anjarle Beach

As one heads north from Dapoli, a beautiful turn of the road to the mountain takes you towards the Aanjarle village. Once you cross the mountain, a riveting view welcomes you with all its pomp and serenity. By taking this same road, one land on the Anjarle beach, which till date, has earned and maintained its reputation of being one of the cleanest and unpolluted beaches in Ratnagiri.

At the beach, one can see a dense cover of coconut trees to one side with little tops of local Konkani hutment, as though they are hidden in the security and under the foliage of the green cover, where local birds greet every visitor with their sweet twittering. One must lose oneself to find serenity at such places of natural richness on the narrow Konkan strip.

On the left, you have the sea stretching up to the horizon and also featuring the quaint border of small boats sailing in the far away water. In front, you are greeted by the long stretch of the beach with winding, twirling and writing tides. Every year from February to May, Anjarle beach bears witness to scores of tiny heads of turtle hatchlings, with twinkling eyes, suddenly pop out of the golden sand beach, take a precautionary look around and breathe the fresh salty air of the Arabian Sea nearby. And then, at top 'turtle speed', they embark on their mission - to the inviting cool sea waters, even as over a couple of thousand excited nature lovers and foreigners witness this miracle of Nature.