WHAT KEPT ME AWAY PART II ...

We were sitting in Thirivanmaiyur( Madhu's house) and watching the video we took on our trip.It had come out pretty well.It was fun watching the video the hump-Nosed Pit Viper, the trek into the forest and the whole experience with Gowri. Following the personal preview show rolled out the dinner followed by reminiscence of the events we wanted to call Gowri and see what he was up to, and we called..
"Hey! Gowri how are you! " i shrieked " I Am good Showkath ,How about you? hows everyone else? inquired Gowri, "i was about to call you guys" he added" Really" I exclaimed "why whats up? "Saying that i was able to see madhu's face lighten up with excitement and mystery "I caught a 14ft King Cobra this Evening, had a call from near Thirthahalli, I was wondering if you were would wanna taka a look at it?" All we remember after hearing that was we both were sitting inside the 'Chennai -Bangalore-Mangalore' Jet Airlines flights, which left 6 hours after Gowri hung up not hearing anything from us on the other side of the call!
DAY 1
By the time we even realized what was happening we were in a taxi climbing the hills to ARRS!
It felt like we belonged here, the country side, the hills, the wind and the trees were enchanting. We got to Agumbe, with short honks we entered the compound of our previous host- Jenny Pai's house (who was shocked to see us again, cos it was only two days back, that we were outside her house waving our hands, saying a million Bye’s, Take care’s and thank you’s...) We Explained her what brought us back her so soon, “Its really heartening to see the level of enthusiasm you people share, am really impressed” She said( What weird, jobless morons these are!, is what she would have really thought!) We settled down with our luggage and waiting in anticipation of the rattling of Gowri's Marshall jeep- The only ' Inter Forest Shuttle Service'...We heard the horn, Gowri was on time to Jenny's house we hitched a rtide on his jeep and headed to ARRS. We picked up the King Cobra and went off to release him in the wild. The pictures above were taken during the release. It was an awesome sight and experience to see the King at such close proximity. It was an experience that we will never forget. We were spellbound! The only one who ever spoke in the next fifteen mins was Madhu , and all that she said was” It was a crazy, crazy day" She kept repeating the word crazy so many times that Gowri and me took three hours to get the word of our minds! That night Gowri cooked Chicken! Mmmm.. Yummy, trust me when I tell you that his Semi gravy Chicken is the best , better than my moms or even better what the Chettinad restaurants have to offer! We headed back to our homestay with a full tummy and a great experience!

Day 2 continued…