Wind farm

Somewhere on the road from Munnar to Valparai.

Backwaters

These shots were taken around dawn (except the first one, which was at sundown), from various points around the shore of Micheal's Land, a resort belonging to the Kondo Syokai group. It's a fifteen- maybe twenty-minute-drive from Fort Cochin.
























These chaps paused as they were about to pass each other and stopped to chat. P'raps they were talking about where the fish were biting. Or maybe it was about the evening's toddy-drinking plans.














So pleased with this one. Sprinted—well, okay, stumbled and huffed and panted and lumbered—along the bank to get to the spot where the fisherman would be in the ripples lit by the rising sun, found flat spot to place camera in lieu of tripod, got the shutter speed just right, and after five shots, he obligingly bent over to haul in his net just as the shutter opened. All at 10x zoom. *chortle, chortle*

Cochin Harbour

These shots were taken from on board the Rosa. She is owned and operated by the Malabar Yacht Club.




Can't do Cochin harbour without taking a shot of the Chinese fishing nets, can you?


When you see a "No smoking" sign this size rumble past you, and you're in a dinky little sailng yacht, you obey.




Picture by Kedar Bhat

Munnar, dawn

(At the Taliyar tea estate.)

Elephants!

The first wild elephants we have laid eyes on. Max zoom, of course. One doesn't want to upset critters this size.

Missed out on getting a glimpse of the old tusker who raids the vegetable garden at the Tallayar plantation, though.

Changeable Hawk-Eagle *

* says Falstaff.