Back and dry
Sorry about not updating for such a long time. I got back from Valparai last sunday and been trying to catchup with a months worth of backlog. I’ve almost taken leave and on vacation in Bangalore now.
The last trip was quite tough. Since we had gone back to film mostly frogs and rain etc, it meant filming in slushy conditions. We went back in search of the Purple frog again, but even after 10 days of searching we could not find it again. I guess they really go come out and go back into the ground in less than a week.
Filming other frogs was really hard work. We would shoot misc stuff all day, have dinner and then head into stream sides in the middle of the evergreen forests. That’s when we actually started to work. We find frogs, setup all the gear in the slush and then film them. We were returning back at 3 – 4am many times, fully wet and infested with leeches. Anyway it finally feels good to be back in dry cloths.
Our next destination will be Eravikulam. We wont be going back to the hut, but this is the time when the Nilgiri tahrs rut (males fight it out for the females).
Re: close to Munnar?
Yes, the place is Rajmalai.. which is the tourism zone of eravikulam NP.
Did you get some pictures?
Back and Dry – me getting more and more damp over the last few days because of the persistent lousy rain 🙁
You didnt do any photography this time ? Only filming ?
Have fun guru
Not much this time.. mostly filming.
Do you and your team carry anti venom on you on these trips?
“Filming frogs is hard work”…several youngsters I know are fired by the dream of becoming naturalists or wildlife photographers; I hope that they are reading your LJ regularly, and know the difficulties and hardships that one has to endure…btw I think, with all that wildlife quite often (literally) attached to you, I will now call you by a Chinese name…Li Chi!
Simply Superb
Hey, you guys are having experience of your life time.Staying in the evergreen forest till 3 AM is just like not being homo-sapien’s :), too cool. Any way all the best for your work’s and we look forward for more updates on your blog.
hope u had a nice time :).