I make it a point to not recommending much to others. I so not tell others how to run their lives, I have my own opinions on what is the best caliber, scope, boots or buttons. This time I am making an exception bucause I feel that I would be doing a diservice to several fine people not to report on my latest trip. My wife and I just returned from 21 days in Namibia with Dirk & Rita Rohrmann of Okanduka Seibe. Dirk is the PH, Rita takes care of the lodge, staff, client needs and everything in between. My wife is not a hunter and this was her first trip to Afirca. We had a ball. The hunting was great, the varity of game was matched by the quality. Several posters have expounded on the absoutely wonderful food, and care provided by these fine folks and all I can do is to add my own simple praises. It would be impossible for me to have scripted a better trip, I hunter for 14 days, we toured Etosha Park with our PH and visited Swakopmund on the Coast for a couple of tours. I took five very nice animals, saw a thousand more, walked many miles in the sunshine, and forgot what day it was. I did not use a phone, fax, or computer for three weeks...WOW!
Daily events; up @ 6 coffee & toast out at 6:45 check leopard bait (I broke Dirks recoard of getting everybody a shot at a leopard, (old eyes and slow reflexes, I guess) and off to the mornings hunt. Moring was absoutely the most glorious part of the day. Professional trackers, first class equipment, excellent camp staff, fantistic food, please don't go there. Dirk & Rita will be at SCI next January. Linda & I will be returning in '08. I am picture illeriate and every body has seen pictures of an old fat man with a Mt, Zebra, Oryx, Springbok, Steenbok and Blesbok. As I say please don't go there, it is hard eongh to get on Dirk's schedule already.

Sounds like a great trip.We would all love to see the pictures (every fat man with a mountain zebrs does not look alike) and would love a day by day and blow by blow account also.

Where in Namib are they located and when did you go?

Aw, c'mon. Nobody looks at the hunter in the pictures anyway (unless its Cindy Garrison) - but I need an Okanduka Seibe fix bad!!!

I suppose it would be in poor taste to not offer my condolences about the leopard, but since I am booked back there in '08, I figure there's one more wandering about - and that has to improve my chances!

Please post a photo or 2 - and a more detailed account of your hunt would be nice if you can spare the time and effort.

Congratulations on what I'm sure was a great time.

Acer

Hey, ARTP:
So that was you who came in as almostacowgirl and I were leaving? How was Rita's driving to Etosha? A couple of the boys won't go to the airport with her anymore!
Sometimes I wish I had more than an engineer's vocabulary (concentric, straight, parallism, etc.) to describe my feelings about Dirk and Rita after our 8 days with them. How does someone take perfect strangers into their home and within 24 hours make them feel as if they are all family? They are very, very special people whom I miss almost daily since returning from Okanduka Seibe. Here's a pic of NAMIBIA'S MOST WANTED.

Dave

Cowboy, Rita did quite a job on the jeep trail to the ranch. We had Dirk for Etosha, musta been his turn in the barrel. My wife had the pleasure of riding with Rita on five trips in and out of the ranch!! Must agree D & R are wonderful folks, must go back in '08 to try for the leopard again.

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Originally posted by eyedoc: We would all love to see the pictures (every fat man with a mountain zebrs does not look alike)

Absolutely, no two zebra patterns are exactly the same!

ARTP - Congrat's on a great trip, and for being able to forget what day it was (that is classic!). If your pictures are digital and you want to email me a few (address below), I'll be happy to post them for you.


*****EDIT***** Click on THIS THREAD for pictures.

ARTP

Come on post some of your pictures! Don't worry to much about not killing a lepoard. It's far better to not take a hurried shot. Look at it this way, You got to hunt lepoard at no extra cost and at least your taxidermey bill will be lower! Artp if you get back into Soldotna give me a call.

I second the motion for some pics! Okanduka is a great place and Dirk and Rita are terrific people running a first class operation!

Only 22 more months......

I will put a few owrds together this weekend and Yes Bill C. I will accept your kind offer. I will send you a couple of photos as soon as I figure how to pry them out of the camera. Thanks. It was a fantastic trip all the way around.

21 days goes by way to fast! ARTP I am waiting to see some of your pictures. Try to keep it down to 50 pictures and no more that 10 pages of text!

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pictures.

ARTP
Were are the pictures? Don' let work get in the way!

Oh, suuuuure, ARTP. Get a fella all stirred up, only to find he's looking at 2008 at the earliest ...

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Oh, suuuuure, ARTP. Get a fella all stirred up, only to find he's looking at 2008 at the earliest ...

I told ya not go go there.