Back from Tanzania

06 November 2008, 23:20

Michael Robinson

Back from Tanzania

Hi All,

We just got back in the wee hours of this morning from a month in Tanzania and I am now in the office catching up on work. After so long away, that will take some time and effort.

We had a terrific time scuba diving the Mnemba Atoll off of Zanzibar and hunting in the Selous with Frederic Herbain of Tanganyika Wildlife Safari.

We spotted dolphins, green sea turtles, groupers and thousands of indigenous fish of every kind while diving the atoll.

And we had sometimes difficult but successful hunts in the eastern Selous for elephant, three dugga boy buffalo and a hippo on land - as well as for a good variety of plains game, including East African greater kudu, waterbuck, impala, warthog, Lichtenstein's hartebeest, Nyasa wildebeest and plains zebra.

We hunted everything using classic, hard core, spot or track and stalk methods.

We had no luck with the big cats, although we we certainly tried. At this time of year, lion and leopard hunting are tough in the Selous, with so many easy-to-kill totos of every species running around. But we did succeed, mostly by luck, in spotting and tracking a big lion for a time. That was a lot of fun, even though this particular simba was very smart and eventually managed to give us the slip.

We had no luck either on sable, bush pig, eland or bushbuck, although we did spot and chase all of these but sable on several occasions.

I will post a report and photos as soon as my head re-enters the civilized world and I catch up on all the accumulated work!

06 November 2008, 23:40

Charles_Helm

Welcome back! I look forward to a complete report in the fullness of time.

06 November 2008, 23:41

SBT

Welcome back MR. Glad to hear you had a good safari, but sorry to hear there were no cats. I look forward to hearing about your elephant!

06 November 2008, 23:49

TOP_PREDATOR

Welcome back,bring on the photos

07 November 2008, 00:03

Cunningham

Welcome back. Looking forward to your tasty report.

07 November 2008, 00:27

BrettAKSCI

Sorry about the cats. Sounds like a great experience. Can't wait to see the report.

Brett

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Rhyme of the Sheep Hunter
May fordings never be too deep, And alders not too thick; May rock slides never be too steep And ridges not too slick.
And may your bullets shoot as swell As Fred Bear's arrow's flew; And may your nose work just as well As Jack O'Connor's too.
May winds be never at your tail When stalking down the steep; May bears be never on your trail When packing out your sheep.
May the hundred pounds upon you Not make you break or trip; And may the plane in which you flew Await you at the strip.
-Seth Peterson

07 November 2008, 01:01

Use Enough Gun

Great to have you back. Not much has happened in your absence.

07 November 2008, 01:37

bwanamrm

Welcome back Mike! I look forward to your hunt report, both the hunting and the diving aspects of your adventure.

On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling

Life grows grim without senseless indulgence.