Lets take a trip

It had been a long time since I had been to a wildlife sanctuary. 5 years to be exact. When I was in college, I typically went to one at least once every 6 months. Ever since I started working disappearing into forests without knowing how long we would be gone for is, well, a  luxury that I couldn't afford.

Recently I ended up going to Kudremukh and Bhadra with her. I was there only for a couple of days. An outside observer who listens to the incidents on the trip would call it a disaster. But we had a lot of fun. We sat in a reclining chair and read for most part of the trip (or were driving which was a little tiring), listening to hundreds of birds making their distinctive calls. We could identify a few, others we decided were birds which were just being boisterous and having a hell of a time during that warm March daylight.

This trip made me realize how much I missed the starlit sky of a western ghats forest, the myriads of sounds one hears in a forest, how exciting it is to investigate things that seems out of the ordinary or how it feels to not have any artificial ambient noise. When was the last time you experienced all these and more? My last time had been a little too long ago. I am hoping my next trip would be sooner.