Posted in In Nature:, India, Travel on Feb 21st, 2008
Precisely on 5.30am Satish and Radisham appear at our door, wrapped in blankets and holding a lantern; “Ready sir!!”. We’re touched, they are genuinely going out of their way to make [...]
Posted in In Nature:, India, Travel on Feb 21st, 2008
Our driver and guide have disappeared. Well, they’re not where they’re supposed to be. When I go down to wake them, the car is not there and all is quiet. I [...]
Posted in In Nature:, India, Travel on Feb 21st, 2008
I go down to wake the dynamic duo. Satish sleepily winds down the window. “Sorry Sir, program is cancelled”. “Why?” “Permissions not granted”. India strikes again. Disappointed we nevertheless [...]
Posted in In Nature:, India, Travel on Feb 21st, 2008
Nagzira’s evergreen forest
Our driver and guide sleep in the car overnight, parked at the back of our lodge. At 5.45am I go downstairs and wake them. They are both shivering [...]
Posted in In Nature:, India, Travel on Feb 21st, 2008
In this diary of a week in India, we take you to Maharashtra, to the jungles that inspired Rudyard Kipling. We begin having just spent two fruitless [...]
Posted in In Nature:, India, Travel on Feb 20th, 2008
India may seem like an unlikely destination to experience the wilds of nature. With a population of over a billion people, are there any places in the subcontinent that human presence has not overwhelmed?
Well, fortunately, there are. India has a diverse range of landscapes and habitats, and many forest and wild areas are protected by [...]
Posted in Australia, In Nature:, Our business on Feb 20th, 2008
In part 1, I described how we began our business and recorded our first album. For our next project, we were unsure of how to proceed…
Enter a good friend, Steve Craig. Steve worked for the Department of Conservation, but his passion was owls, particularly the rare Powerful Owls that live in the moist forests around [...]
Posted in Australia, In Nature:, Our business on Feb 20th, 2008
Sarah and I were camped out in one of the most ancient forests in Australia, and the weather was turning bad.
The dense mountain forests of East Gippsland, in far-eastern Victoria, are a realm of giant tree ferns, towering eucalypt trees and impenetrable undergrowth. They are places of peace and majesty, of sheltered gullies, birdsong and [...]
