Tiger and My family!
May 2nd,
My first Blog…and can’t be a better reason to Blog about. A fantastic weekend with Family (my mother, wife and daughter) and Cousins at Churikad Estate, Nagarhole.
My family has been accompanying me on a few weekend trips to the South Indian forest for the last 6 years and my 5 year old, has been on game rounds ever since she was 5 months. It was only in the last weekend, apparently the busiest weekend in Nagarahole because of the long weekend and summer holidays, that we saw our first Tiger together.
This picture is from my 40D, 500 mm lens and my mom saw this without her Glasses!!
This TIGER was spotted by mother, which was quite well camouflaged in the grass and I had not spotted it until she pointed towards it. This was an incredible feat for my mom as she was not wearing her glasses!
It showed up when it stoop up!
My wife, Sneha and daughter Ruthu, saw it only when they used my Binoculars.
My cousins and their family saw it only when it stood up and the other half of the tourists on the bus never saw it!!!
All this action happened when we were on a Game round in the Forest departments rickety old tourist bus and not in a Fancy 4WD.
The same evening all of my family saw a 8 foot Python crossing the road near the estate…and I will try and post the video!
SRIKANTH
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well to the blogosphere dude!
Bro,
There a 12 My’s in YOUR 12 sentences..Was wondering if the blog was about you or the tiger !
cheers
Gani
U missed out another 12. It has been posted on the 12th May. It has to obviously be about ME on My birthday!!
Dear Sir,
I have been trying to contact Shri Sandesh Kadur after seeing his feature Mountains of the Monsoon on the TV. I figured that you may have his current contact address and will be much obliged if you forward my message to him.Thank you , Yours Sincerely S.R.Roy
Dear Shri Sandesh,
I saw yr film on Discovery channel (?) in ” Mountains of the Monsoon ” where you said you had seen this animal of the cat family, which you saw in daylight but could not see again.You later surmised that it might be a genetic mutation of a member of the cat family etc. I would like to tell you that I saw the animal at around 12 midnight in December 1987 when I was working as a mining engineer in the Kudremukh Iron ore company Ltd. We were returning from Mangalore and this animal was on the road confronted by bright headlights of the vehicle just after a turning. It was in a narrow cutting in the hill through which the road had been cut and the surprised animal had only one way to escape.It jumped about 22-25 feet up onto a ledge cut on the hill side. I at the time thought it was a panther and thought nothing odd in its presence there. The location is on the strech of road somewhat after the forest gate on the Karkala Kudremukh road just before Gangamula. It was deep brown in colour about 2.5feet in height and about the size of a leopard but looking like a mountain cat, with sharp pointed ears.Very athletic. The animal exists whether recorded or not. Also thank you for showing me the western ghats again after so many years, it feels like home and very good memories.Souma ranajit roy