Wednesday, August 5, 2009


· 23rd July we went out for walking in the bush with Seth and some other rangers and as we started our second walk, one of the rangers looked through is binoculars and said oh well I can see a lion! Far down around 300 meters away on the wall of the dam we saw 3 female lions sitting these were the same lionesses which we had seen earlier so got on the vehicle and got close to them to get some pictures. While coming back we came across a big male elephant that was walking behind our vehicle and it was wonderful to see this huge creature. The afternoon was very windy and cold but Seth arrived at around 2.30 pm with his telemeter device and antenna he told us that we will go looking for leopards and so we did and at around 3pm we had seen our first leopard of the day a female sitting on a termite mound well hidden in the bush, Seth said that she is quite shy and might move away and after giving us a good view of around 2 mins she moved away. From here we went at the dam where the three lionesses were sitting on the wall in great light so we took lot of pictures of them as they were in a great light. After this Seth told us that we must move as there are very good chances of finding a male leopard in another area and as we arrived in that area and switched on the antenna we heard the beeping and Seth said to keep a look out as the leopard was very close and as he said this we saw the leopard appear from behind the bushes looking straight at our vehicle so I started taking some pictures and then this leopard crossed the road right in front of us at a lightning speed and moved into the forest on the other side we tried to follow it for a few more minutes and did get some glimpses but the we had already seen the best of it so we moved on to head for the lodge but on our way we encountered a herd of elephants walking on the road in front of us one which was a bull in mast so we waited for them to move off for a long time, as they went in a little inside the bush we quickly speeded past the area. The evening wasn’t over for us yet we were requested by the rangers to join them for meeting the trainee rangers on the boat night where we had a great time with the rangers.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

have not seen any of your photographs or blogs this year, where have you been busy.

*mirer

Vaishnavi Kumari Ranawat said...

ur blog is damm nice...plz keep writing.