Ladies and Gentlemen,

Just over 4 months until we return to Zimbabwe. I was going over my pictures from 2003, so I thought I would share a few. These are from the Binga Communal Area in the Zambezi Valley. I take a lot of pictures of the terrain, trying to capture the feel of Africa. I just can't get any picture to do it justice. But that is what I remember most about Africa, the land. There is just something different about it, something that has a life of its own.

Very nice Terry!

In what month were those pictures taken?

Erik,

The second and third weeks of June, 2003.

Regards,

Terry

Hey Terry,
Nice pics. I'll be in the Humani area of the Save from June 15 through the 25th. Are you any where close?

Gents: I'll be there 6-25 June. Dande and the Lowveldt. Good luck! jorge

Terry,

Fanatastic pictures for a cold Feb evening, sorry to say I do not get to go this year. Hope you have a great hunt.

BigB

This year, we will be in Dande starting on June 29 and then down to Lemco. Depart Bulawayo on July 14. Sorry we are missing everyone this season. We should all plan our safaris better so we can visit on the plane.

The pictures were taken in second and third week of June, 2003.

Regards,

Terry

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Originally posted by BigB:
Terry,

Fanatastic pictures for a cold Feb evening, sorry to say I do not get to go this year. Hope you have a great hunt.

BigB

BigB,

I'll bet you recognize the territory in those pictures.

Regards,

Terry

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Originally posted by T.Carr:
I take a lot of pictures of the terrain, trying to capture the feel of Africa. I just can't get any picture to do it justice. But that is what I remember most about Africa, the land.

I do the same, wherever I am but especially in Africa. Thanks for sharing your pics Terry. I enjoyed them greatly.

Cheers,
Canuck

Any geologists in the group? Here is a neat rock, the river bed (in the last picture of my first post) was full of these. It looks like a lava flow. Any ideas?

Hi Terry,
I thought I recognized the pictures and then the lake threw me. I've been in 3 of Russ's camps in the Binga but not Songo. Was that Songo?

I appreciate the memories. I don't take time to look at my pictures often enough.

Thanks,
Kyler

Kyler,

It was Sengwa camp, it is located on the shore of Lake Kariba.





Regards,

Terry

Thanks, Terry. Very nice. Mopane thickets in the southern winter viewed in the northern winter is heart warming.

That ain't no lava flow, or maybe it is, but it is obviously a large tablet with weather beaten heiroglyphs of a long lost civilization from the motherland.

Or is it one of the monoliths from a posthumous Stanley Kubric release, _2003, An African Odyssey_, produced by Terry Carr?

Here's a link to some photo albums from the 2003 safari.

The password is: fun

ZIM Camp, etc.

ZIM Ele

Regards,

Terry

Did you have to do that? I´m trying to work here and the pics blew my concentration!

Luckily I´m off to SA on the 26th that is in nine days!

The views remind me of the area where I´ve hunted in the Northern Province...homesick again...

Terry, In the third picture from the bottom, was the PH leaving you in the bush without a rifle for isbehaving?

I wonder if this happens to Walter much?

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Originally posted by Minkman:
Terry, In the third picture from the bottom, was the PH leaving you in the bush without a rifle for isbehaving?

I wonder if this happens to Walter much?

Minkman,

You are correct. What you can't tell from that picture is that my wife is saying, "Hurry up guys, we can get away while he is taking more pictures of trees and rocks."

Regards,

Terry

Terry, I'm no expert but the rock looks like a "schist".

Schist rocks are metamorphic. These rocks can be formed from basalt, an igneous rock; shale, a sedimentary rock; or slate, a metamorphic rock. Through tremendous heat and pressure, these rocks were transformed into this new kind of rock.

Schist is a medium grade metamorphic rock. This means that it has been subjected to more heat and pressure than slate, which is a low grade metamorphic rock. Schist is a more coarse grained rock. The individual grains of minerals can be seen by the naked eye. Many of the original minerals have been altered into flakes.

Because it has been squeezed harder than slate it is often found folded and crumpled. Schists are usually named by the main mineral from which they are formed. Bitotite mica schist, hornblende schist, garnet mica schist, and talc schist are some examples of this.

Terry,

They look very familiar, had lunch last year at the sight of the rocks everyone is discussing. Also got a serval, bushbuck and genet up by the lake. I will try and go back next year for leopard.

BigB