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hayath_dyno
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 Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:21 am Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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Nice list Balaji, looks like quite some amount of brackish stuff too.
Bring on the pics mate when we're still excited 
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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| That's an awesome list. Waiting for the pics. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:58 am Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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Soon soon. Pics are not with me. And I know what exactly s gonna happen with the pics Ashwin clicked. They l never see the light of day.
The Mudskippers didn last the journey Hayath. They were about an inch in length. Poor buggers were gone by the time we reached. |
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hayath_dyno
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:37 am Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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The Mudskippers didn last the journey Hayath. They were about an inch in length. Poor buggers were gone by the time we reached.
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Sad  Most likely would have drowned.
Mudskippers need to come up for air, very critical to provide some floating object when transporting them. (I had used a can's top when bringing mine from Karwar)
Even in the wild, they spend more time outside water than in it.
Most likely would have been the Periophthalmus dipus |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:19 am Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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| Who has the damn pictures? Looks like I will be driving up to Chennai to have a look at them. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:20 am Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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| where are the pics |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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Ok guys, finally uploaded some pics...sorry about the delay. 
Now, there are very few pics of fish that I had taken...they just didn't come out well in my camera. I think Raghu may have got some good ones in the photography tank.
Here you go:
En route to the first collection spot- the lake at Kaliveli, right beside salt pans.
More to follow. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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No pics of mine from the second spot- I was busy taking a much-needed nap in the car! 
Some pics from the last collection spot, where we had much more success than the first two. Lovely spot, although two of our gang unfortunately managed to find the exact same spot where I had observed PMDD contributions being made a little while earlier. I spotted at least one local who seemed a bit peeved that these intrepid fish-hunters had taken over their favourite spot!
We spotted X. cancila here.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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And finally, the few I have of the fish:
Glassfish
P. cupanus
A. blockii?
P. cupanus
Excuse the picture quality. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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Simply superb landscape photography........ I loved the second, third and the seventh one.  |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:38 pm Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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Nice Pics.
Any pics of the Puntius sp. that you guys caught? |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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A brief description on the trip - Kindly excuse us for the delay.
The wake up calls started flowing at 2:30 AM , 18th July Saturday. Shankar and Muthu came near my house and we headed on to Balaji's house. We got a 'MAY DAY' call from Balaji that few (female) dogs were chasing him and had to rush to his place. We
then headed to Sai's house and picked up Sai and Raghu. As usual our moss-guy shopped for cigaretts and emptied couple of
shops on the way. We reached Ashwins house around 3:45 AM. As we were only 8 members, we deceided to park my car at Ashwin's place and head to Pondy on his Tavera. This time around Balaji escaped from Mohan songs. We picked Abishek on the way.
The team - From left to right - Abishek, Prasoon, Ashwin, Shankar, Muthu, Balaji. Not on the pic - Raghu behind camera, Sai again shopping for cigarette
First spot - Adayalacherry - on the way to Pondy.
We found lots of PMDD and water was bit murky. Rejected the spot and we headed on. We found a beautiful flowered cactii here, check for that in Ashwins list.
Raghu seems very good with his Nikon
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:03 pm Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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| Edit : Good timing Prasoon. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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Second Spot - Kaliveli Estuary10 KMs before Pondy.
We had to walk through salt pans to reach the Estuary. The whole area looked very promising. Krishna joined us from here.
Well, not really. The whole area was covered with mud and my leg got trapped. That's me and Balaji trying to retrieve my slipper.
Abishek trying with all his might to pull put the slipper. This guy was loating over the mud!
Shankar caught a few gobies and mud skippers from these locations.
These flora were growing among the mangroves
We saw lots and lots of brine shrimps on these salt pans. Check out for brine shrimp eggs in this snap
We had to ditch Kaliveli and bid adeu to this place.
All of us were damn hungry and we headed on to this road side shop.
Chai chai chai
Team relaxing a bit
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:07 pm Post subject: Re: A Small One In Pondy |
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Third Spot - Chunnambar
We then headed to Chunnambar to meet Mr.Thomas. Thomas runs an orphanage and also a fish farm and plant farm.
He walked us through his farm and explained us on the fauna and flora he had. He had a good collection of orchids.
oops!
Few more from his plant farm
Few pics from his fish farm
This river was behind his orphanage.
The river was a bit deep and Could not do much fishing here
Moss guy trying cliff hanger stuff
From left to right
Ashwin, Abishek, Muthu, Sai, Prasoon, Thomas, Maran (Thomas's son in law), Raghu, Balaji, Shankar, Krishna
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