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Camping with Bella #2 Jadhavwadi Dam

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 On 8th February 2021, Saturday CAMPING WITH BELLA #2  - JADHAVWADI DAM, Pune      Hello, folks! Welcome again, first blog gave me a boost to write this second blog immediately without wasting time. Hope you all doing well in this crisis. I will take you to another wonderful camping I have done with Bella (those who don't know Who Bella is - She is a pet dog).  Bella was ready for another adventurous night. This time I have decided to go a bit further just behind my previous camping site (Bhandara Hill) i.e Jadhavwadi Dam which is 13 km from my home. This was sudden planned and I was confused about the place. Finally, on google earth, I decided to go there. Earlier I thought of going on to the hills near the dam. But I could not found a way up there and never been there earlier, so decided to pitch my tent near water. I started late this time around 10 PM from home. Bella was always ready to go out at any time of the day. I am waiting for her to say, No I d...

Camping with Bella #1 Bhandara Hill

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Welcome, all good people out there! Enjoying the view from the camping site. This was shot by Nishu (friend) he accidentally mates me on the hill. In this blog series, I will be taking you all on the amazing journey of camping alone into the wild, which I have experienced. When I was a child I used to see a famous television show on Discovery- Dual Survival. In which there were two professional nature survivors, one Cody who was Naturalist, a guy who never wore artificial footwears and he used to were a nose ring with long hair. Another guy Dave was a retired army officer. Dave always used to say that he spent 300 nights under the sky per year. That inspired me and that one sentence always stuck in my mind. I am a research fellow, I have done my first research project from IISC, Bangalore. Our field site was Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary, Pune. Which has clouded rainforest and also fragmented evergreen forest patches. I have spent 400 days of my life in that forest. During which, I b...