Dear AR Guests ...

I will post some recent hunting pictures separately ... BUT here are a few miscellaneous (non-hunting) pictures taken at our 4000 acre private ranch in Zambia, this is not the Dendro Park hunting property

This is our recently purchased (Wildlife Conservation/Agricultural) Ranch which is under new developement

Cheers, Peter
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It seems that we have a matched set of (HIS & HERS) Oranges from the orchard on the property


OR PH Dene Bird taking time out from hunting and doing some agricultural seeding


When the rains come down it is amazing at the streams that seem to spring up all around the property


This picture is taken from the inside of a giant/large Anthill on the ranch


This picture is taken on a private Island on lake Kariba / notice the ele

It's amazing - alot of those pictures remind me of Texas. Love the oranges - lol.

Thanks for posting. Those are great.

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Originally posted by bluefin:
It's amazing - alot of those pictures remind me of Texas. Love the oranges - lol.

Yeah, that second picture looks like a scene straight from the Waco/College Station area.

Couple more pictures from the Kaloma wildlife conservation property //

My brother Alan & his family team are currently in the process of GAME FENCING the entire property, all 4,000 acre.

They arranged for (2 x 27 ton trucks) to transport over 200+ rolls of fencing, 40,000 fence droppers, water tanks tractor and MANY other miscellaneous bits and pieces all the way from South Africa to Zambia, this was a nighmare process to get all the RED TAPE and paperwork done, but YES he succeeded and the trucks arrived a couple of weeks ago ...

WHOEVER said life was (simple easy and boring) in Africa needs to see a SHRINK (-: It is a major challenge to makes things happin BUT with LOTS of time patience perseverance blood sweat and tears it can be done, believe me.







Cheers, Peter

The Trucks have since arrived after their (LONG TRIP) from South Africa to Zambia, equipped with mountains of gear including the game fencing items

Some general pictures for yopur interest

Cheers, Peter






Part of the 40,000 droppers for the game fence


Some product from the small orchard on the game ranch


Early morning on the open plains of Africa


My young nephew Shawn brother of our PH with a 1.5 horn Kudu

Enjoyable pics.

Nice pics Peter. I shake my head everytime I think about the fence work you chaps have to deal with. Amazing. Texans can relate

How many tons of maize do you recon you will ave per ha. in your area?

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Originally posted by kamaatu:
How many tons of maize do you recon you will ave per ha. in your area?

Hi Kamaatu ..

Hope life is treating you chaps well in Namibia, it is a wonderful country of diverse landscapes is Namibia.

WE are essentially (Wildlife Game Ranchers) ourselves, and have been so for 20+ years since leaving Zimbabwe ... We dont have vast agricultural knowledge, therefore I would not be able to answer your question correctly.

BUT what I will say is, the land in Zambia (at least in our region) where we operate within is very very fertile, we get a nice defined rainy season, and the land has not been worked at all, therefore I would expect the yield for Mealies and other crops as chosen to be excellant.

No doubt my family will do some maize seeding to test the waters BUT we will in the main be involved in (Wildlife Game Conservation) within the property. The orange trees were on the property when we purchased it so that was a bonus.

In conclusion there are (vast tracts of arable land) within Zambia (under or not utilised at all) and many farmers from SA and Zimbabwe have moved onto the land and are making it work for the country, the future is very bright we believe. WE now own (three private ranches) in Zambia and will keep looking around for more opportunities for investment into the future.

IMHO whether we like it or not, I truly believe some decades or so into the future it will be very very difficult to find open hunting areas as are now enjoyed by many, the political and habitat changes taking place in Africa will be very difficult for hunters and we will find that hunting will in the main be confined to fenced Ranches and/or Conservancies, as that will be the only way to conserve wildlife as the large open parks are being poached to hell

Cheers, Peter

Holy Mackeral, that's Shawn. The kid is growing up.