{"id":2499,"date":"2015-11-11T01:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T01:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vargiskhan.com\/log\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2016-11-27T17:04:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T17:04:57","slug":"a-fish-a-snake-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vargiskhan.com\/log\/a-fish-a-snake-a-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fish, A Snake & A Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a weekend, I along with a friend of mine drove to Karna Lake. There was no specific reason to go there except for to go out on a drive and break the monotony of busy work life. Karna Lake is a small water body located in the city of Karnal. I had never been there so I wasn\u2019t really sure of what to expect but still had an idea in my mind. Upon reaching there, I pretty much saw what I thought. A small lake located in a city that had been turned into either a picnic spot or a lover’s point. We reached there at noon after a quick meal at Haveli restaurant and hence there weren\u2019t many people around except for a few mischievous teenagers. While my friend and I were sitting in the park like area, enjoying the peace of this place, something really interesting and peculiar happened. Something that none of us had only seen either on National Geographic or Discovery Channel. Swimming out of the lake towards the shore was a snake with a fish in its mouth.<\/p>\n

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I quickly grabbed my camera and we ran closer to observe. This snake had just caught a fish in the lake after which it swam to the shore and crawled between the stones, with the fish still in its mouth. There was really not much space to hide so it had no option but to feast with our curious eyes fixated on it.<\/p>\n

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The fish was still alive and for the first 10 minutes, it continued to struggle to get out of the death’s jaws and swim back in the water. Snake on the other hand just waited patiently with its fangs buried in the fish, which as you can see in the pictures, was quite big as compared to its mouth. After a little while, the fish stopped struggling as life escaped out of it which was in a way sad as well. As the scuffle of life and death ended, so started the marvel of the snake adjusting its jaws and starting to swallow the fish. The progress was painfully slow and it took almost next half an hour for it to swallow one third of the fish.<\/p>\n

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