India is renowned as a great place for all kinds of wildlife and there are
plenty of tours and trips available to give you the opportunity of seeing it
for yourself. However if there is one area which I think is poorly provided
for, it's pelagic trips.
It's true that I've only been to Goa and Kerela, so perhaps the situation is
better elsewhere, but I've found it very difficult to find anything that
remotely resembles a dolphin or whale watching trip, let alone a pelagic
birding trip and it's exceedingly difficult to even find out much information
about which species are out there.
I mean this is the Arabian Sea, the north western part of the Indian Ocean, so
surely there must be something good out there? I'm sure that there is, but
it's like getting blood out of a stone to find out anything about it, and
trying to get to the edge of the continental shelf here seems to be as
unlikely as getting into space.
However, from a previous visit last year, I do know that there are Indian
Ocean humpbacked dolphins in the Fort Kochi area, and today we enjoyed
watching them with a couple of pints at the Hotel Seagull, right on the
waterfront.
In my
previous post
about these animals I discussed the uncertainty surrounding the range of the
different species of humpbacked dolphins in the Indian Ocean, but these are
most likely Indian Ocean rather than Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphins, based
on range and colour. Nice to see from the hotel bar!
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