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I have spent most of November 2016 in the Pafuri area of Kruger National Park doing my Trails Guide course.

I have logged over a 100 hours (roughly 180km walked) on foot with 70 ecounters with Buffalo and Elephant along and between the Limpopo and Levuvhu rivers.

I would like to share some of the Buffalo images I have taken during this time but also a few taken driving North through the Park before the course as well as a few days traveling south from Pafuri to finally exit at Phabeni gate south of Skukuza...


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Buffalo at sun set on the Limpopo flood plains






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Old Dagha boy waited till we were about 40 yards away before standing up.

He chose the escape route to go over the ridge as he walked away I could see fresh wound on his left hind leg from a wire snare...



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Along the Limpopo river we have thick stands of Lala Palms giving away to Fever Trees and then the thick riverine bush.

The Lala Palm thickets are a favorite place for buffalo to hang out in resulting that you walk slow and on edge through the lala's.

We found these two bulls on the edge of the fever trees and the riverine thickets.



You can clearly see the scar on the throat of this bull from a wire snare.



Finding and removing wire snares and also finding dead animals due to poaching was a reality that we found a couple of times a week.

Zimbabawe poachers cross the empty sand strip of the Limpopo river to set snares on regular basis...


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The buffalo sunset pics are beautiful. Seems like most of the game taken now has scars from snares. One of the buffalo I took in the Malipati Safari area had a scar around his neck from one. We found several snares made from heavy wire that were set for buffalo.
 
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The buffalo sunset pics are beautiful. Seems like most of the game taken now has scars from snares. One of the buffalo I took in the Malipati Safari area had a scar around his neck from one. We found several snares made from heavy wire that were set for buffalo.


Thank you,

The pressure on Africa's wildlife will increase.

Thank you for removing the snares you have found.


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Great pics, they pop the eye
 
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Great Pictures - thanks for sharing.

Awesome buff with the broomed - worn tips and bosses!

Cheers

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Awesome photos, looks like some tough old bulls.


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Great pics!
 
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Thank you for the comments gents,

I will post more this coming week


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The harsh realities of the drought Southern Africa experienced




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Dagha Boys enjoying Dagha on a warm summers afternoon





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Some buffalo of my dreams here, Gerhard. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your images.


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That got my juices flowing. I need to do a buff hunt.
 
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Great pictures! Thank you.
 
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Really nice pictures. I recall reading where Hemmingway or Rourke, said once you hunted the Cape Buffalo nothing else satisfies or something like that..

Its a fact, Ive shot a lot of buffalo in my lifetime and I still crave to hunt them above all other game, Today age and finances has left me with a head full of beautiful memories for which Im forever grateful.


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Some of those bulls are the stuff that dreams are made of! Thanks for posting.


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Its a pleasure sharing these photos and I will kwep doing so as they become available during my trips.

Appreciate the comments!!!


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Thank you for posting those wonderful photos. You have had an awesome experience! Excellent career. Good fortune to you.

That drought was terrible alright.


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Gerhard. Simply fantastic. Please keep them coming. Just love those crusty old bulls.
Thanks for sharing.
 
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Wow what curls some of 'em have.

Great pics, thank much for sharing.

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You have very artistically captured some fantastic pictures of some magnificent old bulls - buffs that most hunters will see only in their most imaginative dreams.

Thank you so much for sharing these pictures.

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Atchinson: Was Ruark. Just read it this evening. But some good looking bulls aren't they.
 
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Words fail me for describing how great these photos are.

I especially like the one with the old boy hiding under the brush, just below the ridge line. I'd bet $100 the wind is blowing from over the hill, giving him scent warning from the direction he can't see, and visual / aural warning from the direction he's facing.

The last buff I shot was in a very similar set up but he was laid up with a buddy. Both facing about 45 apart, looking over an open area, backed up to thick brush with the wind coming from the brush behind them. Smart old buggars!! And one of the reasons they are such a pleasure to hunt once they leave the herds.
 
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Thank you for sharaing the pictures .
I have come back several times just to enjoy them



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Thank you all for the kind words.

I have not been down to the lowveld for soms time to chase buffalo with the Canon.

However this will be remedied early in 2019.

I will gladly share more photos of one of my favorite species.


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I like that last picture in B&W.


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The Southern Part of the Kruger National Park did once again not disappoint when it comes to Cape Buff.

This is probably the biggest old dagha boy I have ever seen...



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This bull was among one of the bigger herds of buffalo seen during the week.



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Dagha Boys


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