Wow Great pictures as usual , may you be blessed with another wonderful Safari
Walter seems to be right at home

Would absolutely love to be there with ya'll!
I hope this is your best safari ever.
Or at least until Hessa can go with you.

Another adventure with Walter. What could be more exciting?

Have a great time to you all...I'm going to be glued to this thread

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I hope you enjoy the photos.

I can hear lions calling, just as we heard them both last night and early thing morning.

Breakfast at 5:30, then we head out hunting.

The pictures are fantastic. They gave me an overwhelming feeling that I can only describe as "homesickness". Everyone looks great, and I am glad the hunt has started out well. I am really looking forward to more updates! All the best to everyone!

Cheers
Chris

5 years I have been following these hunts and I cannot wait for the next day!

A hunt fest & a laugh fest!

Thanks a tonne for sharing this entertainment!

Great bunch of pictures.
Sure would be nice for those of us not familiar with all you folks and some of the areas. To have some captions to go with them. Just saying it would help some of us newer members.

Thanks for sharing, some 'artistic' views from the air of that stream bed.
Have a great time.
George

Thanks for sharing!!! I am on the edge of my seat awaiting the reports of your adventure.

georgeld,

Be patient, they will get around to identifying names and places, as this extravaganza unfolds.
Actual hunting takes precedence to exhaustive reporting with every post.

Saeed,

Garry is the PH assisting Alan with crowd control? Garry who? I can wait.

Tell Alan that his i-phone or email account may have been highjacked, or some malware is using his name.
Some miscreant is sending out web attacks, something about a fake survey, that Norton blocked me from opening in email.

Thought I was getting a message from the i-phone of Alan Vincent. But nooooo ...

So today I get to live the adventure of the hunt. To be apart of a trip tht i get to share in and also get to see.

Every Year We have got the videos of the trip and my daughter and I sit and watch the antics the hunts and enjoy the sounds of the bush.

This year my little one took her first antelope a duiker. But she wants to grow up to be a vet and pilot so she can work with Wild animals.

This is all thanks inlarge to these videos and these hunting trips.

Thank you Saeed and walter and co.

some fantastic photos! The party has def. begun!

Folks second PH is Dylan Cloete. expect buffalo to die...

Last night we could hear lions calling practically all night.

Hyenas were at the camp almost non stop, and the hippos from a pool a short distance away were also assisting in the audio department.

Dillon is on a very steep learning curve to understand how Walter tick.

Got us at 5:30 as usual, had breakfast and headed out. We were supposed to go in one direction, and Dilly and Tony in another.

But, just before we got to the junction where we separate, we saw a herd of buffalo.

Plans were changed, we went after the buffalo, and Tony and his party went on their way.

We chased the buffalo for a while in very thick bush, and decided to give up as the wind was wrong, and we did not want to scare them.

We left them and headed out.

A short while later, we saw another herd feeding in a river bed.

We went after them, and shot one at a longer distance than we had hoped to.

We loaded him in the truck, and were on our way back to camp to drop him.

We then came across another herd feeding, and decided to see if we could get a shot at a bull there.

Found the bull we were after, but as usually happens, he was in the clear, but a cow was immediately behind him.

We had to wait for quite a while, rifle ready on the sticks.

Eventually he moved, and I shot him.

He wasn't in the bet of health, as he had a big wound from a lion attack.

Took some pictures, and left him for the crew to collect.

W e went back to camp to drop our first bull. The plan is for the boys from the butchery to drive back and collect the second buffalo.

We decided to stay home, have a proper lunch, and generally make a nuisance of ourselves to keep Rene on her toes!

Tony and his crew are still out.

You should have seen Tony's face this morning as I discovered were they were going to go.

I told him "watch out for sleeping hippos"

He looked at me with a sort of incredulous smile, and repeated "yeah, sleeping hippos!"


Last year we had a job avoiding stepping on them asleep in the forest by the river bank!

Bakes here guys. Well day two of my hunt was the whole package. Dillon my PH found a buff camp at the base of a baobab tree. He put the trackers onto the trail and the boys were off. Just watching the trackers work the trail was fantastic. We didn't get far when Dillon pointed out that a lion was also following the herd (that increased the pucker factor ).

We'd followed the herd for about 1km when Dillon pointed out a bull behind a bush facing us. A shot through the bush resulted in a good hit but he took off to the left, we heard him bellow at one stage. Dillon then noticed another big bull in the main herd, we had a wait him out, when shot presented I took it and he dropped on the spot. We then had to go and find the first one and that resulted in a tense tracking job through some thick scrub. We found lots of blood and I have to say my heart was pounding. To after about 100 meters we found the bull laying down, as he tried to get up I hit him again through the shoulder. So two buff in the same hunt and I was chuffed.

Top stuff guys!!

We hunt vicariously via your reports and photo's Saeed. Thank you!

Who gave Walter the boomarang? That just seems like a recipe for stitches for someone!

Tony:

Congrats man! Better than shooting one myself. Let's have some pics.

Thanks John. Saeeds in charge of the pictures mate. I'm flat out trying to work the camera let alone uploading pictures

I am trying to convey the safari to you in pictures, but I am sure there some of might wish to know some information.

So please post any questions you wish me to answer, and I will be happy to do so.

Just had dinner - kongoni casserole - and we plan to leave camp by six tomorrow for another adventure.

The best yet. So much fun to go along to Tanzania for the cost of an internet connection.

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Originally posted by BaxterB:
The best yet. So much fun to go along to Tanzania for the cost of an internet connection.

Yes indeed!
Saeed,
What block are you hunting?

Geez Bakesy you are on a roll there with the daily double.

I love the dragonfly pic too.

The oxpeckers seem to have been lazy on the ticks.

Outstanding report so far! (And, as usual!)

Can't you come up with some tick repellent for Walter? and why do you have to keep showing us his balls???

Tony:

Did you shoot a buff double? Man all you guys are on a roll...like the wild wild west.

Ha ha very funny re the ticks.

Saeed perhaps Mr Bakes would like to be introduced to the T Rex....on video of course....in fact I`m sure fellow AR members would enjoy this...life wasnt meant to be easy TB!

Great photos. Looks a lot like LU2?

Bull1

The lunch photos always take me back. Not that I am a big fan of lunch, but lunch in Africa is like nowhere else.

Shoot straight. Great pic of the ball sack.

Where do you buy the Bladetech Accurate Reloading knives? I want one. I wonder if Will has any for sale yet!

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I am trying to convey the safari to you in pictures, but I am sure there some of might wish to know some information.

So please post any questions you wish me to answer, and I will be happy to do so.

Just had dinner - kongoni casserole - and we plan to leave camp by six tomorrow for another adventure.

Saeed,
Thank you for all the wonderful pics and background up to this point, I'm curious as who shot the hippo. Was it taken on land and what caliber rifle was used?

Tony did shoot the T.Rex, and it was very funny.

No hippos have been shot yet.

Those photos are of live hippos we found sleeping in the forest.

A bit warm last night, slept without cover.

It is 5 in the morning, and I can hear lions far far away, and some horrible noise coming from Walter's tent

Walter is staying behind this morning, as he is charged by preparing a BBQ!

Those ticks on the scrotum are giving me the heebie-jeebies!

hopefully the horrible noise wasn't Tony..

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Originally posted by talentrec:
Who gave Walter the boomarang? That just seems like a recipe for stitches for someone!