Crocodagraphy

The Hunt

Gator

Learning Filmography - Crane Shots lol

An Evening at Payyampally

The Riverside

Again, these are pictures of the Flooded River Kabani and the place is called Koodalkadavu. Whenever I go to my home town Payyampally, I will go to the house of Inchikalla Babychettan (George Panatt) which is situated by this Riverside, and I love spend time there just sitting at his verandah and enjoying this riverside. Manathavady River and Panamaram River combines at Koodalkadavu, to form the larger Kabani, and flows towards Karnataka (Beachnahalli Dam). Kabani River is one of the major sources of water (for drinking and agricultural purpose) for Karnataka, and Wayanad is not able to make much use of this river.

The forest land that can be seen in these pictures is known as Pulpally forest which occupies the tourist spot namely Kuruvadweep or Kuruva Island. This river separates payyampally and Pulpally.

 

 

Flooded River

These pictures of the Flooded River Kabani near Koodalkadavu is taken on the month of October 2010 just after the heavy rain that poured in Wayanad. Koodalkadavu is formed when the two rivers namely “Mananthavady Puzha” and “Panamaram Puzha” joins together at this place. Since these two rivers flows through most part of the Wayanad, the river turns muddy whenever there is heavy rain anywhere in Wayanad.
Kodalkadavu is located two kilometers away from Payyampally, and the famous tourist spot – Kuruvadweep lies nearby, which is again formed by the multi splits and joinings of the river Kabani and the forest land surrounded by the splitted branches of the River Kabani.

 

Alligatoridae again in Koodalkadavu

It was heavily raining in Payyampally, and through out Kerala even in the month of September. Rivers were over flowing through out the monsoon. I enquired and came to know that still it is raining in the same way at my home land. During my short vacation of two weeks, Baby chettan called me up on day saying that he spotted on alligator in the river – Koodalkadavu. I was not well, and in a good mood to run for photography craze, but still managed to go and take it. Motivation makes me not rest. And I got these photographs. This place is very near to Kuruvadweep as I have mentioned in other posts.

Bird on the rock

A black bird resting on a rock.

Camera :	Canon Powershot S2 IS
Location :	Koodalkadavu, Near payyampally
Date :	27th January 2007
Description :	A black bird (don't ask me what bird it is, I don't know.) sitting on the top of a rock projected out from the river. You can see the rock in white color, the bird excretion made it white. So I assume that this rock is a favorite resting place for the birds before or after a fresh fish meal. You can see the bird's feet which is very suitable for swimming. I had to use a little bit digital zoom also to get a closer look. Now I understood that even the combined 18x zoom of Powershot S2 + canon teleconverter won't help for bird photography.

Karivandu

Beetle on flower

Wider View of the first picture

Camera :	Canon Powershot S2 IS
Location :	Koodalkadavu, Near payyampally
Date :	27th January 2007
Description :	A black beetle ('Karivandu in Malayalam') on search of honey

Reflections

Photo taken from Inside Kuruva Island where there is a ferry (Kadathu) towards the side of Pulpally. I found the reflections on the waves of water made by the moving ferry interesting and clicked the snap.

Puzhayoram

Tranquil exquisiteness of Kabani…

This marvelous sight of poetic exquisiteness is captured from the Palvelicham side of Kuruvadweep at around 5:30 pm.

Courtesy to RADS for the beautiful scripts.