Our Trip with Noah

Our Trip with Noah

by Clio

  Noah came to India for Christmas vacation.  We went on many exciting adventures while he was here.  Here are three of them:

                     Horn Bill Camp

We went to a state called Kerala.  In Kerala we went into the mountains to a camp site called Horn Bill Camp.  We went kayaking three times. Once, my kayak almost tipped over.  Another time, it bumped into a big stand of bamboo. 

    One night at camp, we heard elephants eating bamboo and trumpeting. One morning we went birding  and saw:  a Black Buza , a Cormorant, a Snake Darter, a Horn Bill, Haring Tree Pies , Frog mouth, Oriental Robin,  Paradise Fly Catcher,  Red Bellied Ground Thrush, and a bird called the Seven Sisters.  (We saw more birds but I can’t remember them.)  At Horn Bill we also went on an exciting bike ride and saw a half-sunken canoe and a dog that looked like a sausage.

   The Cardamom Club

    Next, we went to a plantation called the Cardamom Club .  At the Cardamom club, there was a tree house and a big yard where Isabel and I liked to play.  We went on a big walk and saw  woodpeckers ( it was the Common Golden Backed Woodpecker )  and we saw a Gaur (wild bison) and her calf.

         The House Boat

   Then, we spent a night on a house boat; it was terrifically fun.  Isabel and I went fishing and caught fish.  They were grayish-brown, pretty fish with two, big, red spots above their tails.  We let them go because they were too small to eat.  Besides the fish, we were told there were water monitors in the water but we did not see any.  

On the house boat, we ate delicious, bony fish with yummy, fat, Kerala rice. 

                  

Here we are waiting for the train after our trip.  Noah and Isabel are playing backgammon and I am reading The Little Prince