Postcard from Kabini Wildlife sanctuary, India

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Just before Christmas my family and I spent a dayand a nght at Kabini Wildlife sanctuary about a couple of hours south of Mysore, India

http://www.junglelodges.com/resort_o...?resort=Kabini

It was quite memorable experience, topped off by a tiger sighting..unfortunately this has become quite rare these days so one has to be extremely fortunate to sight one of the 60 odd tigers that live in this wildlife sanctuary spread over thousands of hectares

Here are a few pictures

(well I would have posted them but I cant !! )

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Terry or Mike , I'm using IE but cant seem to attach files

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

What format and size are they Narayan? Or dont you have a manage attachment button?


Check this thread
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ghlight=manage

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

its the manage attachment button thats gone walkabout..I tried clearing the cache and closing the browser but no luck try again

[casstony]

Looks like another fabulous place I would like to travel to. I'm envious. There's nothing quite like that feeling of being in a natural alien environment. One thing I always want to know though regarding warm climate destinations - how bad are the insects?

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

I'll be darned

well the manage attachment button is back so here goes while I still have it ..

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Ok though we saw the tiger pug marks earlier, it was a real surprise to come across a real live tiger in the wild, sort of sitting by the side of the road, minding his own business..he saw our 4 WD and darted into the jungle ... too quick for me to grab a picture..but if you strain maybe you can just make out some stripes????


have to say even in the full res-6 mega pixel image -this was with my canon 300D-its still hard to tell if he's still in the image or not and we have had endless arguments in the family about this ever since

He actually stood there and watched us for a while and then soundlessly --melted away and there was nothing


The camouflage is so perfect that you could quite literally be metres away and not know a tiger was there

anyway a visual sighting was great..not many folk are lucky enough

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Originally Posted by casstony

how bad are the insects?

well our doctor prescribed some malaria pills which cost a fortune and we took whatever shote he recommended, but have to say the mossies were not all that bad as it was winter in the northern hemisphere

[casstony]

I see the tiger - about an inch or so left of the centre of the photo?

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

well yes i think so

[iceman (Mike)]

Great images Narayan, sounds like quite an experience.