Place: Bannarghatta - Shivanahalli (en route to Jigani)
Route: Drive upto the point of entry to Bannerghatta national park. At that point it is a junction, take a left. Roughly 2 kms down, take a right - easily missable, but u should be able to spot people standing
there waiting for buses. This is near the Ragihalli gate. Once you get onto this right, its one straight road , including 5kms through the reserve forest where you can spot elephants and birds.
What we saw: Elephants, Birds - bee eaters, some predators, Malkhoa, Coucals, Babblers
We got this invitation from Ganesh who heard about a "tree-planting" exercise through his grapevine.
So a bunch of us set off in different vehicles towards the Ramakrishna Ashram in Shivanahalli.
We (Jey and Smi) set off at 630-ish from wheeler road. Stopped at Adigas near Wockhardt for a quick bite and drove towards the Bannerghatta zoo. We made our way towards Shivanahalli, but realized that we were very early and so did a couple of back and forths in the reserve area stretch. Here we spotted some interesting birds...
After a while though, we started seeing traffic on the road and figured people were converging towards the tree planting event, and we too headed that way.
Once we got there, we were served good idlis for breakfast after which we set out lead by the iownatree and rotary club sponsors, on a trek behind the ashram.
We reached the place where we saw a bulldozer (or some such equipment) creating holes. And we started planting the saplings...
After three odd hours, we finished and were told that we could move back for lunch, which again was surprisingly delicious. Or it could be that the manual labour had made us hungry!
All done, we got a debrief and came back home, sated and feeling like we had contributed to a better tomorrow!!!
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