Nature Walk – Turahalli Forest
This forest walk had participants of all ages.
They are invisible only as we take them for granted, but visible if we really look out for them. Since Darwin, we have generally thought of trees as striving, disconnected loners, competing for water, nutrients and sunlight, with the winners shading out the losers and sucking them dry. The timber industry in particular sees forests…
Looked like lantana but was actually different… Asclepias, Mexican Milkweedit’s called Arisina Kumkuma in Kannada, beautifully descriptive name!~ Deepa Mohan (naturalist, writer, photographer, birder, …….)
We went to explore the world underwater, at Netrani Island 19 km off the west coast (from Murudeshwar close to Mangalore). This was some place along the drive we stopped to take a break… Peaceful evening on Murudeshwar beach… On the one hour speedboat ride towards Netrani Island… What will it be like underwater in…
Mandya’s usually considered as an intermediary milestone along the way to Mysore or any other place… we never imagined we’d actually go to this place for a visit. But when we did go to a homestay over here, the surroundings were quite unexpected. We’d probably gone at the perfect time, just after the monsoon, and…
At 5:30 pm, we all assembled at the waiting area at Prani, other than Ahana and Satvic. We went to the place where we were camping. It was the place where they stored old stuff, but now they renovated it, and used it for camps like this or for school trips. We put our bags…