I took the morning off, last Saturday after some more dental torture work, to go with the BULBs, and visit

Manchinabele Reservoir area …the dam is built across the

Arkavathi river .

We took the turning when we saw the signboard:

(er, we also took note of THIS signboard..."thattE idli" is one of the specialities of the area) The area is so green and beautiful, with larger shrines under the peepal trees: and smaller shrines, too: For some reason, most of the shrines I saw were to Vishnu or Anjaneya; I hardly saw any temples to Shiva, I wonder why! The Kaveri, particularly, is associated with Sri RanganAthA, a form of Vishnu, through her whole course...whether in Karnataka or Tamizh Nadu. Soon, the beauty of the reservoir, with Savandurga in the background, smiled up at us: We got closer to the reservoir: The BULBs group works really well together; whether we are watching birds below eye-level: above eye-level: or concentrating on the excellent food that we have!

the weather was like this most of the time: sunshine through the clouds:

I’ll post about the birds and (a few) other creatures that we saw….next!