Folks,

Tomorrow I go to Tanzania for the season and if anyone is gonna be at the Seacliff on the nights of 2/3/4 July, I'll hope to see you there for a beer or two......

For those of you coming to hunt the dark continent this year, I wish you a happy, safe and successful hunt.

Good luck and good hunting!

Want to trade jobs?

Steve: How have you found the luck of your firearms showing up in DAR from the states?
I'm flying NW/KLM from Newark -Amsterdam-Dar es Salaam and after my poor experience on SAA last year have little faith in any airlines.
The only flights I could wrangle at the time was arrival @ 11PM to DAR with an overnite at Sea Cliff before catching my charter at noon the next day...leaves me with a gnawing in the pit of my stomach wondering if the rifle case will show up when I do.

I am on the 27.8.2007 in Seacliff and enjoying a few

ALP#4

I'm not traveling from the US. I fly Nelspruit to Jo'burg and onto DAR. I was going to drive up in May but then had some hunts to do in Botswana, so had to send the trucks up without me.

Shakari, good luck hunting, maybe our paths will cross. I will be at the Sea Cliff on Sept 12-13 and again on the way home Sept 22-23. This is my first time to Africa.

Steve,

Have a great season. I'll be at the Seacliff Sept 3&4, and JudgeG will be bringing my wife over to catch up with me on Sept 12. If you happen to be out of the bush then, look us up.

I think we're gonna be neighbours and if we don't bump into each other on the roads, I'll be making a point of coming to your camp for a beer or something.

Alp #4,
I have been to Dar many times without incident and I have sent several hundred hunters to Dar, I have had problems on two ocassions of guns arriving a day late in the last 10 or 15 years..So you should be OK, but it never hurts to get into Dar two days early and get rested up at the Seacliff from your trip and that will insure that your guns will be with you.......

To the non-PH Steve:

I believe we determined earlier that we'd be on the same plane into Dar? I'm also (I think) on the same plane out!

I'll see (the other) Steve in the Selous as he will come over for a supper or whatever. Small world, huh?

I can't wait to see your smiling face (and totally addicted person) when I meet you back after your time in the bush. You'll be just another Africa junkie.

Below is my first Selous buffalo. You go kill his grandson who has been on steroids!

JudgeG, will do! See ya on the plane!

Steve Not Shakari,

Please keep an eye on JudgeG and my wife for me. If they do anything incriminating, I'll pay you for pictures.

Shakari,

Have a good go! May the hunting Gods be with you. Be careful.

Dale:

You just want to buy the ones I've got?

Lots of rain this afternoon? Radar shows it looks like you got several inches. Maybe the fire risk will be abated?

Dang, Buddy! Two months! You got the Lott all squared away?

1115, the camera is ready! This is looking like a really fun trip!

So which of you guys are staying at the Seacliff and on which nights?

Steve (not me ),

What block are you hunting?

Shakari, all the best from the gang in Texas! Our guns came in on time from Amsterdam, but another fellow(bad on names) that was hunting with Pierre's son had the misfortune of them not showing up till the next day! If I do it again, I would have a full day layover in Dar just in case!
Lee.

shakari,

Best of luck for a successful season!

Shakari, I will be hunting LA1, Hamish Manning will be the PH. Jaco Oosthuizen was going to be the PH but will be with another party in another camp. I don't know where we will be staying yet, Jaco hasn't supplied that info yet, I can only assume it will be the Sea Cliff. We'll be in Dar the 12th, 13th, and then back on the 22nd and leave on the 23rd.

You'll do well with Hamish and he knows LA1 extremely well.

Steves,
I'll be at the Sea Cliff on Sept 15th, hunting the Selous with Luke Samaras' PH Leon Kachelhoffer. Don't know which of his blocks we'll hunt, depends on where the game is.
Hoist a sundowner for me!
Russ

Russ, we'll miss by one day, Damn! Theres going to be quite a few of us "in country" at the same time! I'm sure that quite a few will be hoisted to a toast of "Good luck and Good hunting to all"

Steve (not the PH),

You aren't going to try that little old 9.3 you got from me out on this trip are you?

Best of luck to you. And to you Dale, Judge. Give em hell.

Brian

Judge and 1115,
You had better both be good or I might have to relase this picture - -
Oops!
Looking forward to seeing in Dallas this year.
Brian

Dale is such a sweet guy.

Hey!!!! It doesn't mean we're bad people !!!!!!

Allout, Yep the 9.3 is going along, its a real tack driver!

JudgeG & 1115 //

Was just wondering about that picture which Brian Posted ...

Brian do you think GWB will give you a pardon if their wives find out (-:

AND MORE importantly, are those a couple of Well wrapped Cubans which the guys are smokin

Cheers, Peter