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Showing posts with label Chennai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chennai. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Madras Crocodile Bank

Madras Crocodile Bank is located on the ECR Highway between Chennai and Mahabalipuram, about 15 Km before Mahabalipuram. The Crocodile Bank houses different varieties of Crocs, Anaconda Snakes (from Czech Republic) and some turtles. Tho' all the crocs look alike without any major difference, except the classifying name board kept in their pond identifying their variety, the park has a good number of these reptiles and is decently maintained. The visitors are allowed to watch the feeding of these reptiles over the weekends at mornings and evenings, which is a good to see activity here. A nice, shady area with a lot of crocodiles to watch for in one place, not more than a couple of hours...



American Alligator


Aquatic Gharial
 
Marsh Land Crocodile
 
Gharials
 
Jaws III- One of the largest Salt water croc in the world




 

Sunday, 11 November 2012

Pratibha Cauvery beached at Chennai coast


Pratibha Cauvery , an Oil Tanker vessel got beached at Chennai, Nochi Kuppam coast due to the strong winds of Cyclone Nilam, which made a landfall near Mahabalipuram, Chennai on Oct 31,2012.

Later it was salvaged by a towing vessel Malaviya on Nov 11,2012.

 

Pratibha Cauvery - the beached oil tanker vessel 



Malaviya - the towing vessel pulling Pratibha Cauvery



Pratibha Cauvery at Nochi Kuppam, Chennai beach