Everybody was finished with 12th board exams and was desperate to roam around jungles. After changing plans frequently, we decided to go to Sacorda for a night stay at Aniket’s place and a morning trail from Sacorda to Waghurme.
While coming back from our ‘inspection’ visit to Bondla Wild Life Sanctuary, we told Ajay sir to drop us on Tisk from where we caught our bus to Sacorda. We had visited Sacorda before once to see Malabar Pied Hornbills which was a memorable experience.
Sacorda is a village consisting of many sub-villages. It’s a prominent mining area of Goa. Mining here is the major cause of depletion of green forests and pollution. In Sacorda, every other house owns a truck. Since the mining business is a money-boom, it is but natural for them to own a truck. Some of them own even two.
We started walking as soon as we got down from the bus. We adopted the road which was rarely used by the people so we could spot some birds. Grey Hornbill welcomed us to Sacorada. We crossed the narrow bridge and reached to the entrance to Aniket’s house. And we heard a familiar call, Malabar Pied Hornbills. There was no doubt about it. Aniket, Saish Rohan and me started running. There were 3 of them sitting on a tree top. We kept watching them until they vanished through the skies.
We were welcomed with sugar-water and then Kokum juice. Aniket’s father was busy performing ‘puja’ and later attended us after finishing it. The chat started with gossips of forest department stories and continued to mammal sightings in the village. It was a thing in recent years that Bison are showing up in human settlements in Sacorda. While coming to Ani’s house, the compound which guraded their cashew plantation area, was disturbed by bison. The neighbors confirmed it. We even saw hoof-marks.It was dinner time and Ani’s mother called four of us for dinner. After that, we again went for a night walk. We kept walking here and their in the torch light. We were expecting a bison to show up, but I think, night time was not the right time. Behind Ani’s house, we saw this bush frog. We brought him in their courtyard and clicked it’s photographs. I was totally unaware about the super macro mode that Nature Club’s camera offered until Rohan revealed it up. My first attempts to capture the froggy were out of focus and blurred. Than Rohan took the camera into his hands and captured some beautiful shots in super macro mode.
While coming back from our ‘inspection’ visit to Bondla Wild Life Sanctuary, we told Ajay sir to drop us on Tisk from where we caught our bus to Sacorda. We had visited Sacorda before once to see Malabar Pied Hornbills which was a memorable experience.
Sacorda is a village consisting of many sub-villages. It’s a prominent mining area of Goa. Mining here is the major cause of depletion of green forests and pollution. In Sacorda, every other house owns a truck. Since the mining business is a money-boom, it is but natural for them to own a truck. Some of them own even two.
We started walking as soon as we got down from the bus. We adopted the road which was rarely used by the people so we could spot some birds. Grey Hornbill welcomed us to Sacorada. We crossed the narrow bridge and reached to the entrance to Aniket’s house. And we heard a familiar call, Malabar Pied Hornbills. There was no doubt about it. Aniket, Saish Rohan and me started running. There were 3 of them sitting on a tree top. We kept watching them until they vanished through the skies.
We were welcomed with sugar-water and then Kokum juice. Aniket’s father was busy performing ‘puja’ and later attended us after finishing it. The chat started with gossips of forest department stories and continued to mammal sightings in the village. It was a thing in recent years that Bison are showing up in human settlements in Sacorda. While coming to Ani’s house, the compound which guraded their cashew plantation area, was disturbed by bison. The neighbors confirmed it. We even saw hoof-marks.It was dinner time and Ani’s mother called four of us for dinner. After that, we again went for a night walk. We kept walking here and their in the torch light. We were expecting a bison to show up, but I think, night time was not the right time. Behind Ani’s house, we saw this bush frog. We brought him in their courtyard and clicked it’s photographs. I was totally unaware about the super macro mode that Nature Club’s camera offered until Rohan revealed it up. My first attempts to capture the froggy were out of focus and blurred. Than Rohan took the camera into his hands and captured some beautiful shots in super macro mode.
It was shot in LED light and the cement layer behind perfectly camouflaged with the froggy’s skin. Later, the resting frog started jumping and vanished into night. I think he hated being “PAGE 3” animal. We returned back to Ani’s house. The beds were ready. We gathered around the Saish’s laptop to see the photos. After deciding the next days plans, the lights went off. But our minds were still burning up. Everybody was tired but nobody slept. We went on discussing about our life, future, unfulfilled dreams, ghost stories, reincarnation and of course, Chicks!!
I think we slept than.
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