Kadmat, India

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Just back from a month long study abroad class in India, where I was able to spend four days on Kadmat , part of the Lakshadweep Islands. Most of the time was spend snorkeling the west side of the island working on a research project, but I did have time for 2 amazing dives. There was an incredible amount of life, but the coral was still recovering from a bleaching event in 1998. Here are some of the videos I took, I was doing some behavioral work on the black damsel with the white tail in most of the videos.





and a picture from diving, someone has run off with the dive video's I had so I will post them when I figure out who has them.
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Some more pictures of the island

dinner anyone

low tide

more low tide, you could walk out to the breaker and many locals go out to collect octopus

 

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And a fish market in Ft. Kochi on the mainland

 

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The fishing nets that they use to catch the fish

These things are heavy! It takes 4 men to pull them up and down.

A few things that we brought in....

The puffers, they said these began to show up after the tsunami

Then these guys too

Not a good days catch for them

 

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A few of the corals I saw while snorkeling, sorry about the shakey videos

 

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none of the pics are showing up

 

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Dang man no pictures.

 

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Sorry guys, trying this again

 

[ace_92101]

Wow! Thank you for sharing. I understand the islands are fairly basic, which i like. How was the food? I'm planning a trip to India this year. I was thinking of making the trip to Lakshadweep, but I wasn't sure about the reported coral bleaching. I guess I should go a little further south to the Maldives.

 

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Wow! Thank you for sharing. I understand the islands are fairly basic, which i like. How was the food? I'm planning a trip to India this year. I was thinking of making the trip to Lakshadweep, but I wasn't sure about the reported coral bleaching. I guess I should go a little further south to the Maldives.

I enjoyed the food, and it was definetly basic. Plan on taking an entire day to get to any of the islands other than Agatti. I loved the dives but I wasnt there for the coral. It was hard for us to get everything together to go to the islands, bu it may have been because we were such a large group. I'm working on getting back there sometime this year for graduate school work and hope to get permssion to hit some of the other islands.

But here are a few of our dive video's.....

 

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And some pictures....

 

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found this guy in my bed

And he was one of many, one of his cousins on the mainland decided to hitchike between hotels in my bag. Made a great scene, he came darting out when one of my classmates opened it and ran between all of our legs and out the window.

 

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And one of the many fish markets in Ft Kochi

these guys showed up after the tsunami

 

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Some of the other wildlife that I saw when I was there

These guys had a habit of taking off with your food, we had one even jump in our bus.

Biggest spider that I saw there

Except maybe for this one, which we were told was extremely venomous. By far the ugliest spider I've ever seen, and my other hobby is keeping arachnids so I have a passion for the creepy crawlies.

Had to stop so the guys could cross the road, it was the biggest herd our guide had ever seen in the 6 years he had been working in the preserve.

 

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More pictures and video's to come, the rest of my dive video's are on my computer in my lab