I have spent most of the time deep in the forest. My profession effortlessly provides me much joy inside the forest. I get the unbeaten path of wild all of my jungle activities. I get love affection and care from the wilderness.
In the first week of June 2017, I traveled to Manas with Dr.(Prof) Kushal Konwar Sarma from Guwahati. We started post-lunch hours of the day and reached Mathanguri around 8:00 pm. Dr. Bhaskar Choudhury (Wild Life Trust of India), Dr. Prabhat Bsuamtary (Veterinary Surgeon of Manas Tiger Reserve) accompanied by us from the Bansbari range Head Quarter of Manas NP. Mr. Babul Brahma (Range Incharge ) arranged our booking at heritage inspection(Upper) bungalow of the forest department.
Dr, Prabhat Basumatary arranged a special local brew with roasted pork. It was like get together after 4 years at Mathaguri. It was raining catch and dogs and we hang out with our nostalgic experience. It was not a general tourist season so we were free to do as our wish. All of us a bit cranky when we tried to reconnect with the wilderness.
The purpose of our visit was to observe one adult rhino health condition. We started elephant rides the next day early in the morning from the Buraburjhar camp.
Mr. Sundaram (Assitant Conservator of Forest, Manas Tiger Reserve) accompanied us from the campsite. We searched for more than 5 hours in dense jungle and unable to trace out the rhino. We took the lunch break and returned to camp.
At the campsite, our forest colleagues prepared our wild feast. They prepared pork curry with wild vegetables, mashed potato with roasted fish chutney, dal fry and finally roasted pork with the local brew.
It was a heavy lunch with lots of joy. We again started our post-lunch session rhino search operation. We then covered different locations. After covering 1km distance we located the rhino. Dense grasslands gave use difficult to observe the rhino.
Rhino was looked fine and no major injury observed. We were following about 3km distance and then decided to return back campsite. We were happy that rhino was out of danger and we also got chances to reconnect ourselves with wilderness after a couple of months.
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