The Skimmer is built for two people who want the estate to themselves after dark. Five hundred and sixty-six square feet of it, opening onto a private sit-out with its own fire pit — which is where most guests end up after the evening safari, working out what they saw and what they missed. Inside: a king bed, a sofa deep enough to actually read on, and a bathtub, which is not something you expect to find this far down a kaccha road.
The Indian Skimmer (Rynchops albicollis) is one of the reasons birders come to the Chambal at all. It is endangered, with a world population thought to be under 2,500 mature birds, and this river is one of its last strongholds. It feeds by flying low with its longer lower mandible cutting the water surface, snapping shut the instant it touches a fish. Breeding colonies form on the Chambal’s sandbanks between February and June.
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