Photography ride ( BR Hills) 406km
The Start,
Started off by 5am on a warm Sunday morning, this time my cousins
accompanied our gang and we had 3 DSLRs and 3 bikes, in the trip both were
first timers for the ride, they were invited as it was a half a day ride but
later on due to deviations and bad road it consumed an entire day.
First Stop
We took a short break in Malavalli as we do regularly in
that route, but this time we were running late as the sun was out early due to
summer, last time the we were in Talakaad during sunrise. To catch up last time
we revved up the engine for a short distance and again slowed down due to bad
roads, it was rare to spot clean patch for a smooth ride for almost 40km which
consumed a lot of time.
Lake
Just 20km before the BR Hills there is a big lake, well barricaded on one side with electric
fencing to avoid animal human conflict,
but the humans are on top of everything, there were fishing activity happening
all just within half n hour it was caught and sold, was lucky to spot big size
fishes, three times the size of a cat. The two professional photographers got
busy with their job on the side of lake, the other three did some trek to go to
the other side of the lake, took couple of photos, almost spent an hour there,
with some selfies.
BR Hills
Two bikes went ahead early in that stretch. The weather was
so pleasant at 11am with cool breeze even though the sun was shining bright in
the sky. I had to slow down for Vinod to take photos of birds, found a couple
of them. We were three hours behind schedule. At the top, took a couple of pictures after climbing rocks and tree ... as usual, and the temple was open this time.
Return
Throttles were opened to cover up time, true beasts
unleashed on road, but the riders needed a break and we took a short break for
coconut water, they were just harvested, the water was very tasty, so we had
coconut bottoms up competition ;-) , Vishu and myself could manage 4 where as
the rest stopped after two rounds. As we
were nearing shivansamudra the bridge across the cavery river was under repair.
De tour rode for 20km backwards and this time we transported the beasts in boat,
this mode shortened our de touring by 40km and saved almost a hours time. Heavy
traffic on the Kanakapura road stretch spotting couple of fresh accidents en
route, Even NICE road had heavy traffic.... we were home by 6:30PM.
Riders
1 Shrath Chandra
2 Vishwas Vishu
3 Santhosh Venkataram
Bikes,
1. Classic Chrome 500
2. Thunder bird 500
3. Standard 350
Photographers
1 Vinod krishna
2 Nandini Ram
