Comments on: The Andaman Islands

By: Kartik

Kartik — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:05:33 +0000

Hey, Radhanagar beach still looks pretty decent. Wonder how it must have looked before the Tsunami.

By: Kalyan Varma

Kalyan Varma — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:07:59 +0000

I went by flight. So missed the joy of approaching Andamans by the sea

By: Shyam Prasanth

Shyam Prasanth — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:33:04 +0000

This post brings back memories, i have spent close to a year (1997 -1998)on the islands, I have personally lost 12 of friends during the Tusnami on the car nicobar tragedy. It is shocking to know that many places including Radha Nagar beach has been devastated. Amazing Photos do you have Photographs of the dolphins, which used swim along with the ship as you reach Port Blair. Great post.

By: Roma

Roma — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:04:05 +0000

The clear blue water with a backdrop of rainforests in truly mesmerizing.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:08:52 +0000

Like you have mentioned the picturesque view of the Island is what many people know of. Its very important that people are made of of the real picture. I love the Dead corals pic, the tries in B&W… actually all of them. But not to mention the Turtle thats very close to my heart..
Hey did you manage to get some info on the Tag?

By: AtishG

AtishG — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:39:54 +0000

Do you have any underwater photographs ? I would love to see some if you do !

By: Vijay Venkatesh

Vijay Venkatesh — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:24:45 +0000

Interesting theory about the boat-shaped seed. Do you know anyone who’s doing research on this?

By: Anusha

Anusha — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:05:45 +0000

Lovely pics and nice write-up. It is indeed sad to hear about the exploitations going on. But with more awareness brought about by people such as you and others will hopefully help change the situation for the better.

By: Kalyan Varma

Kalyan Varma — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:20:14 +0000

I’m sorry for not including marine mammals. I was referring to terrestrial mammals. The ones you mentioned are found in Nicobar, but not in Andaman islands. The deers, macaques, civets and elephants have been introduced by people in the last 100 years and are almost have a negative effect on the other island species. They are there, but are not native at all. Infact right now the forest dept is looking at ways to taking out all the spotted deers from the Islands.

By: vinayak

vinayak — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:10:32 +0000

Hi Kalyan,
sorry to differ a little. 55 terrestrial and 7 marine mammal species reported from the Islands. though most are ferral or introduced 5 are endemic to the Islands (3 species of shrews, andaman horseshoe bat and one species of rat ) andaman wild pig, dugongs ,crab eating macaques(nicobars) are some other near endemic species.Deer can be seen on the Ross island and along the Andaman Trunk Road (Jarawa Area, out of bounds).Also Baratang creek is the only place in the world to see the sea going elephants.
Simply Great photos though.