My Wildlife Encounters

  Indistinct bellowing of Sambar deers in the adjacent coffee estate followed by few gunshots to startle them woke me up from my slumber. A lousy morning in a tent amidst the rainforest had a lot to offer. I stood under a tree watching the drops of water caught between the thick bunch of mosses slowly trickling away down the branches. The heady scent of an overripe jackfruit from a nearby tree was intoxicating. Slowly walked away from there and reached a nearby river.  The composed sound of the flowing water and the monotonous pattering of raindrops on the large leaves of Colacasia were in a rhythm. I sat there mesmerized, listening to mother nature's symphony. The zephyr carried flimsy petals of some delicate flower and dropped them on the water, poor petal was carried away by the swift water against its will. A water apple tree was bent low due to the fruits it bore, somehow reminding me of how everything filled with values being down to earth. A pile of coconut husks some intact