Walking with Spiny Turtle

Our human could not walk daily (or blog) due to the monsoon season and can only walk on fair mornings.

Two days ago, our human chanced upon this Spiny Turtle on the path.

On closer scrutiny, it was not "Holey Shell". Though it has a small indentation on its shell; it was on a different spot.

With no hikers in sight, our human slowly used the shoes to guide it to the undergrowth beside the path (our human was absolutely thrilled and grinned widely when it climbed up the shoe); and then covered spiny turtle with fallen leaves for camouflage.

Dead Tree Sculpture

It caught our human's eye when the bright early morning sun hit this dead tree beside the path illuminating its sculpture beauty; this particular scene simply had to be captured. Though walked past it countless times over several years, this area was dim under the thick canopy.

There is another nature's sculpture art along the path but Man's trash spoiled the scene.

Ant Tunnel

From far it looked like a broken fallen twig as well as a small snake across the path.

Closer, our human realised it was the ants ground tunnel and proceeded to casually step over it.

Our human thought, did the ants build the tunnel at a wrong place, right across the path and that it could be destroyed soon as not all hikers are mindful or conscientious.

True enough, it only lasted a couple of weeks; the top portion of the whole tunnel was gone.

If only much thought was given how much effort these hardworking and industrious ants put in to build it.

Nature's Beautiful Hanger Hook

Our human has walked this path countless times.

Few days ago walking past some hanging vines beside the path, our human suddenly noticed a cute strange knob (at our human's eye level) growing out from a vine.

Under the thick canopy, photos are difficult to snap using the cellphone; our human tried for two days. Using the flash mode made the picture look flat and decided not to use it.

Our human wanted to hang the haversack at the beautiful Nature's Hanger Hook but decided not to, for fear of destroying it as the bag was heavy.

Though a hiker walked past, he could not figure out what our human was snapping and our human's not telling. He thought it was the view of the trees in the background.

PS: Can you see where the hook is in the second photo? [Pssst, it is right in the middle of the picture.]

Season of Foul Weather

We are now in monsoon season where we experience heavy rainfall and strong winds till early next year.

When it did not rain, during early morning walks on the path, fallen tree trunks, broken branches, twigs and leaves were seen.

Added to this, the start of the walk was cleared for development.

The flimsy tarp that was home for the strays were bulldozed. Some good samaritans have put up another tarp farther in nearer the forest reserve.

The strays still wander to the old place to laze and rest.