28 August 2006, 23:01
Bill CMemories (Pictures) From a Father/Son Hunt - SA 2001
I was browsing back through some of the "old" pictures on my PC over the past rainy weekend, and came across these from 2001. They are of my first hunt to Africa, which I was fortunate enough to share with my youngest son, Brett, who was just 11 at the time. We hunted a neat photographic property in KwaZulu-Natal for 6 days (where I shot my 29" Nyala), then drove west to the Orange Free State where we hunted the huge Tussen Die Riviere National Park. We also hunted some small private properties in the OFS, which was the last time I ever saw a barrier fence while hunting. Nor have I hunted SA since, although there are a few areas that I would like to someday.I'll post just a few, and please forgive the quality as these were originally on film and I scanned them some time ago.
People always say things like "I hope they know how lucky they are" and "One day they will appreciate what you have done for them"...and this is true and valid - but I just can't help but to feel a bit guilty when I hear this as in reality, I think it is I that should be thanking them for the time.
Brett & Blue Wildebeest from KwaZulu-Natal:
Common Springbok from the Tussen Die Riviere National Park (Orange Free State):
Black Wildebeest w/PH (also from Tussen Die Riviere):
Nyala from KwaZulu-Natal
Kudu from the Tussen Die Riviere
Gemsbok Bull
Here is an article that our local paper did on the hunt. Details are mostly correct and the reporter took a few liberties, but it generated a lot of positive feedback and helped encourage quite a few fathers who I knew at the time to take their kids out fishing, hunting, camping, etc.
Bill
