ATR - Day 47: No sighting in the safari this morning; down with viral

The morning safari was completely useless today, and now I am down with viral. So it is unlikely that I would go on safari tomorrow morning. Maybe in the evening, if I feel better.

November 16, 2023

Thursday, 11:30 PM

Chitvan Jungle Lodge,

Village Samnapur, 

Tehsil Baihar,

District Balaghat,

Madhya Pradesh

India 

Although I wasn’t feeling well today morning, I decided to go on safari anyway in the hope that I might encounter something today despite there not being many reports of tiger sighting. Even if there is no tiger sighting, there can still be something interesting, but as luck would have it, there were no visuals to be recorded on camera, either in stills or moving images. 

So I came back and shot the remaining review video of 70-200 mm lens (some part of it was still left). In the evening, I was feeling too unwell to go on safari, or to do much. So today’s Vlog was edited with only some help from me, and much of the heavy-lifting was done by the on-site and off-site teams in collaboration. It’s going to be live as soon as the upload is done, which is taking forever due to an awfully slow internet speed. 

I don’t think I’ll be going on safari tomorrow morning, for I am down with viral and it’s draining every bit of energy I have. Besides, it’s quite cold in the morning these days, especially in the jungle, which makes it a very bad idea to face cold wind in the face when I am feeling this unwell.