We infact felt we r in the right place very early in our journey, on the way to Mulehole Wild Life Reserve, as we were stopped by a passing by modest elephant family of 3 or more , 2 of which (we spotted) were of avg size and the other reasonably big! and we had to halt the bus till we got a gate pass by the hosts of the area,The Elephants-- At this point we were really exited and were playing wit our own imaginations as to wat wud be in store for us in the grand much celebrated place of Mulehole, just 20 odd kms frm Gundlupete(near Mysore)
Setu's Father, Giridhar Uncle, had a good relation wit the Forest Ranger and he hence Forest Rander had agreed to take us 3 to a grand Forest Safari in the open wild. An adventure we 3 wud never hessitate to accept for sure!!
the pic shows the Official Forest Jeep which took us, later for a LONG "Ride" into the Deep forests of Mulehole.And before it took us, we were almost worshipping the jeep :D as we tot it was our instrument for adventure ... lol infact it was!!
A lil while later , the un imaginable happend, that which tuk us by anguish for the first moment, and exitement by the 2nd and it stayed tat way for a good half an hour!!
A Lorry Driver when stopped at the checkpoint, reported tat there was a Tiger Lying by the side of the road a few kms away frm the checkpost, supposedly Dead!
This was BIG news for the Forest GAurds, as they could ill afford death of the tiger as ofcourse, there are very few, they wanted to confirm the report and we all set off on wat we tot as an epic adventure to find the tiger, we 3 and a bunch of Forest gaurds, along wit the RAnger wit walky talkies being used extencively, all to find the reason they are employed for!
A km passed by another and another, but there was no sign of the Tiger! Different theories started creeping up,
Was it a Hoax CAll?(to divert the GAurds from not checking the Lorry)
Did the Lorry Driver Mistake Somethisng Else for a Tiger?
Was the Tiger "DEad" or was it jus lying on the ground for taking some shelter?
Did it die and some other animal took it away ?
as it turned out, we searched n searched and there was absolutely no clue of the Tiger,
as the last option wasnt much probable, Forest GAurds were some what happy that they din have a dead Tiger to deal with, for they'd have to deal with the criticism and had to formulate an explanation to higher authorities... but for us, it was kind of a dissapointment in not seeing the Tiger itself, dead or alive!! i guess we were so exited to SEE a Tiger in the wild, tat we din care wheather it wud be alive or dead.... it took us some moments to sink in our feelings as we were too much expecting a visual of the tiger and get some pics of it...
after a while better senses prevaled and we were happy for the fact that Tiger had not died!
we came to assume that d 3rd possibility had occured and rubbished the 1st n 4th and imagined 2nd wud be a remote chance tat cud have happened .
