Definitely not a Muslim neighborhood!

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
Definitely not a Muslim neighborhood!

....nor a Peta neighbourhood .....

Both hogs were alive .

Yup. Only surprised there aren't some chickens on there.

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Originally posted by larryshores:

I LOVE it!

In England they charged a man with animal cruelty because he swatted a seagull that attacked him!

Africans are just creative

I once saw a car in guinea that had a cow tied to the roof.

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Originally posted by larryshores:
Both hogs were alive .

That's probably where the term "hog-tied" came from.

I love it! These are the types of little moments which make traveling to Africa special. Thanks for sharing! Definitely put a smile on my face this morning.

YUP!! Standard fare...we saw same with several goats in Ghana and Ivory Coast from our recent cruise!!

I love these moments in Africa. I wish I had taken a picture of the goats on top of a bus, the women dressed to the "Nine" riding side saddle on the back of a Honda 90 taxi and many more.

Mark

This little piggy went to Market…..
This little piggy stayed home…..

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
I love these moments in Africa. I wish I had taken a picture of the goats on top of a bus, the women dressed to the "Nine" riding side saddle on the back of a Honda 90 taxi and many more.

Mark

I think the one picture that will always stick in my mind was the one I saw in Dar.

I still cannot image how he kept the bike going.

A normal size man, was riding a motor bike.

Sitting - not sure if this word is correct - were THREE ginormous ladies.

The bike looed like a sort of spike, and all three were impaled on it!

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
I love these moments in Africa. I wish I had taken a picture of the goats on top of a bus, the women dressed to the "Nine" riding side saddle on the back of a Honda 90 taxi and many more.

Mark

I think the one picture that will always stick in my mind was the one I saw in Dar.

I still cannot image how he kept the bike going.

A normal size man, was riding a motor bike.

Sitting - not sure if this word is correct - were THREE ginormous ladies.

The bike looed like a sort of spike, and all three were impaled on it!

Our locals in TZ call this riding style "mishkaki" and veritably skewer as you described.

The cops don't see them but will nail you for a single non functional brake light.

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Originally posted by fulvio:

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
I love these moments in Africa. I wish I had taken a picture of the goats on top of a bus, the women dressed to the "Nine" riding side saddle on the back of a Honda 90 taxi and many more.

Mark

I think the one picture that will always stick in my mind was the one I saw in Dar.

I still cannot image how he kept the bike going.

A normal size man, was riding a motor bike.

Sitting - not sure if this word is correct - were THREE ginormous ladies.

The bike looed like a sort of spike, and all three were impaled on it!

Our locals in TZ call this riding style "mishkaki" and veritably skewer as you described.

The cops don't see them but will nail you for a single non functional brake light.

They are borrowing from our language.

Miskila in Arabic means a problem!

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They are borrowing from our language.

Miskila in Arabic means a problem!

Kiswahili is derived mainly from Arabic from days long gone.

The African pickup truck!



This was in Mozambique. Everything is fine until he stops!

I saw a big truck near the Zambezi bridge in Mozambique that was loaded with logs in a tapered stack; and standing, chained along the logs were goats, maybe 20 or 30 of them.

I was driving around Chuka by Mt Kenya and there was a guy standing in a little stream off the side of the road washing his motorcycle. Less than 100 yards upstream was a lady straddling that same stream urinating in it.

Saw a man in Zimbabwe with half his face removed.

By a hyena!

Saw another with 3 fingers missing from one hand.

By a warthog.

Had an old game scout with one arm damaged.

By a crocodile!

According to Ionides, the men you see with half a face are always drunks who collapse on the ground outside their huts and are too far gone to wake when the hyaena starts poking around them.

It’s root hog or die in some parts for sure

I think one of the most common/funny ones is the grossly overloaded little Donkey carts, where it tips up, and the little Donkey is suspended off the ground by the twin pole harness!!...

Saw that 2-3 times on our recent cruise around Africa and back!!

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Originally posted by 470EDDY:
I think one of the most common/funny ones is the grossly overloaded little Donkey carts, where it tips up, and the little Donkey is suspended off the ground by the twin pole harness!!...

Saw that 2-3 times on our recent cruise around Africa and back!!

Your adventure has sounded incredible to me, and I’m sure others. Are you going to post a report, or have I already missed it?

Lunch delivery for The View

Not really. The pigs are the View's members.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Saw a man in Zimbabwe with half his face removed.

By a hyena!

Saw another with 3 fingers missing from one hand.

By a warthog.

Had an old game scout with one arm damaged.

By a crocodile!

This reminds me of my first African hunt, in 1983 with Roy. We were hunting at Deka and one morning the warden (Gavin Best if memory serves me)from Sinemetella dropped by our camp to visit over lunch, on his way back from dropping off one of the domestic staff at the medical clinic in Wankie town. He told us how earlier that morning he’d walked out of his house to find one of the domestic servants out in the middle of the camp, laying on her back in the yard. She had gotten blind drunk and passed out during the night, right where he found her. She was laying on her back but propped up on her elbows, still very drunk and watching a hyena chewing on her leg!

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Your adventure has sounded incredible to me, and I’m sure others. Are you going to post a report, or have I already missed it?

Marcus,
Thanks for your comments.
Yes, we had an incredible cruise/adventure, even if it was our 13/17th trip to the continent respectively!!
I haven't posted a hunt report, only various comments.
I always do Cruise Logs for friends to follow along...124 on the list this time.
I tried to do some jump off hunts but all proved too expensive!!.... Zanzibar the highest, we were there 3 days, but outfitter demanded 10 day minimum @ $2200, Suni was $7,000!!Adder Duiker $3400!! They would have been SCI TOP 10, "there are less than 10 recorded on both species!!
Right now I'm typing left handed after Carpel Tunnel surgery last week, so a full report would be challenging. I don't have my photos on CDs and organized yet!!
90 days from Barcelona all the way around Africa to Seychelles Islands, and back. 24 Countries, 50 ports, in some very remote West Africa places. Yes, we had pirates drills for practice, and water cannon and screecher testing.
We flew into the Selous from Dar and left footprints in the Selous Game Reserve, now Park.
We ate Langostine, and monster Crawfish at John Dori in Durban, and BELUGA in Capetown,twice!! DEEEEELICIOUS!! Love South Africa wines.
Most heartwarming was the mostly Africans staff vs Phillipinos, black and white. Compared to our early visits in 70s and 80s where little English was spoken in camp, today they speak Queens English, and can joke and tease, and every one calls you by name!! We had great fun with all of them, especially for Pool Deck lunches!!
Steve

No helmets for the pillion riders!