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Subject: [Leica] Tigers at last
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:43:42 -0400

> Hi Howard,
> 
> Great shots!  Thanks for sharing.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "H&ECummer" <cummer at netvigator.com>
> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 9:44 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Tigers at last
> 
> 
>> Hi Luggers,
>> In the fourth morning, riding in Jayanand's jeep, I did not see any
>> tigers. Bummer. I was beginning to despair!
>> Then early in the hot afternoon as we circled the waterhole in zone 3
>> - the driver shouted "Tiger Tiger!!" and
>> floored the accelerator - "Hang on!". We were the only jeep on the
>> road and we peeled
>> around the corner to the edge of the waterhole and slid to a stop in
>> front of Tiger - 17, Patti Vale,
>> "the collared one".  The next hour was magic - the tiger walked -
>> ignoring us - and we drove ahead of her -
>> taking one series of pictures after another. Only after she walked
>> away from the waterhole, through the grass and
>> across a field did two other jeeps and two canters join us. My first
>> tiger sighting was a special moment - like
>> seeing Orca whales swimming close and free for the first time. It is a
>> moment I will never forget,
>> and the intimacy of it being just us and T 17 made it even more special.
>> 
>> Here are the first photos in their own folder. None are cropped.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tigers/T17-1.jpg.html
>> 
>> Please enjoy, C&C always welcome.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Howard
>> 
>> PS: There will be a hiatus in the Tiger story for the next two days
>> while I go off to the Hong Kong Rugby 7's
>> truly one of the world's greatest sporting events.
>> 
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>> 
> 
Is this a tiger trying to be invisibe?
RanthamBhore Tigers ? T-17-Stalk?


M-19 [Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner





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