Re: Christmas Offroading in the Nilgiris Quote:
Originally Posted by shankar.balan Beautiful photographs of my favourite place in all the world - the place I grew up in - The Nilgiris or The Blue Mountains!
I love your passion for wildlife and nature - God must have been having a "Michelangelo" or "Van Gogh" moment when He was designing that part of India - truly! |
Thanks Shankar. I love the Nilgiris...one of the reasons why I moved t Bangalore. The combination of jungle, mountains, estates, the wind, the smell (especially Eucalyptus and Oil of Wintergreen), trails and roads for interesting drives is heady to say the least. Then add campfires in the night and animal sightings and calls...
P.S.: First love is still the Himalayas though Quote:
Originally Posted by mayankjha1806 Excellent pictures as always, the tea estate looks serene, and Bison looks completely at home.
The boar picture is interesting especially this (once roused, he charges and fights till he or his opponent is dead). Is this really true? cos i think we had a story about a boar getting into a fight with the tiger in some school textbook (may have been something to do with Jim Corbett, don't exactly remember), never thought it was really the case. |
Thanks. Yes, wild boars are very dangerous when they get angry. In the jungles in the South, people stay away from elephants, bears and boars - not so much from tigers and leopards. Quote:
Any guess on how many days would be needed? Any are you planning all alone or with family? Kaladhungilooks interesting to explore need to work out the logistics. I am thinking of a longish trip with family.
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8-9 days I guess. 5 days of leave (Mon-Fri) if you work 5 days. Combine 2 weekends, you have 9 days. I am not sure my wife + daughter will be willing to accompany me to Kaladunghi, though my wife is game for Ladakh.
I reckon I can do Bangalore - Kaladunghi in 2.5 days one way when there is no fog and as long as I am fit. So that leaves 4 + 0.5 + 0.5 days for hanging around Corbett country. Quote:
Originally Posted by Monaro CV8 Superb pics Nilanjan, specially of the Black bird & the Boar!
Have you got any post processing done here? Absolutely spot on focused Pic of the Bird (which looks black to the naked eye) . |
No...whatever little PP I do I use Picasa - mainly for cropping, or turning into B&W etc. I shot those pictures with the 70-300 mm lens, and adjusted the focus so that I could catch them properly. You should be able to get such pics using a decent zoom lens and patience. Quote:
Wondering, instead of the LL, why didnt you use the HL mode?
As far as I know, the HL would give you the a fair control over the crawl, rather than the heavily torqued LL.
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I used the locked mode not because I needed to lock (the normal 4H gives good enough traction) but because I needed to reduce the speed and increase the torque. If I had used 4HL, the speed and torque would have been the same. I needed the additional torque and reduced speed to tackle some of the sections. Once you lock - whether 4HL or 4LL - you can strain the transmission/misc parts if you are driving on hard traction ground. That is why I was careful and also a bit apprehensive since I was driving over rocks and hard ground.
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