Monsoon Watch from a hotel balcony

Monsoon  Watch

Monsoon  Watch from a hotel balcony at Mumbai 2013.

I was briefly at Mumbai for a head office meeting -and was just too tired to go out after 6pm-stayed in my room at Sea Place hotel over looking the Sea at Colaba --Water front and stared out of the window-watched the Sea and Ships & boats--some thing I never tire of doing and it refreshes me--I did not go out at all in the monsoon --(age &health -my neuro- mg is telling badly on such frenetic rush- rush trips finally!! have to stop and take breaths .. )

Managed to take some pics of the sea front at Colaba- from Gateway ; my fav place really.

Evokes so many memories ...esp of my life on a Coastal Tanker m.t. Jag Jwala 1966-69.

Reflections at Dawn
The very early morning hours of 10th Feb.found me looking out of my window at Sea palace Hotel, Mumbai- across the bay and the scene was a vivid recall of T.S. Dufferin mornings . The view across was misty and with some haze---as the sunrise is quite late.. past 7 am, unlike my earlier sunrise time on East Coast.The Gulls and all tiny  sea birds floating and feeding  on the waters of the silent dawn are the only signals of a city awakening, apart from  a few early morning walkers.
The ships in the background is much the same as in 1963-5,-except now so many pleasure Yachts are moored there. 

The serenity of the view across the bay so vividly helped  recall those short periods  after early morning bugle call of Reveille and then  the the "Fallout for Prayers" as we prayed or reflected at Dawn as Cadets - across the Sea ;
A great experience continued over those two years as Cadets does remain etched in the recesses of one's memory..

As the sun slowly rose in the sky-  it also reminded me of basic navigational training  like  sun's amplitude, sextant altitude and all. The mist slowly lifted and the day break continued. Crows, - raucous as they are, replaced the Gulls and slowly the traffic noise replaced the Quietude of the wonderful morning....
Oh yes,  the beautiful scene was heightened with a Lemon Tea at The window.

 Never thought the hotel room overlooking the Sea face at Mumbai would offer such a gentle vista for a meditative space in the early hours esp. considering  the usual din of  city traffic and noise that starts later.

Moments of Silence still reigned in the early Dawn-

"take time to appreciate the wonders of Creation and the Creator is a truism".No wonder our Ancients valued the early hours so much as "Shubha Muhurat" and then said "Good Morning".
Cheers 
TR