A Hunting Ban Saps A Village’s Livelihood
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Lions have been coming out of the surrounding bush, prowling around homes and a small health clinic, to snatch goats and donkeys from the heart of this village on the edge of one of Africa’s great inland deltas. Elephants, too, are becoming frequent, unwelcome visitors, gobbling up the beans, maize and watermelons that took farmers […]
Is modern urbanisation killing off the manly man?
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I came across this opinion piece on Fox News: Is liberalism killing the real masculine male? It seems that way. Keep in mind here, that when I say “man,” I’m not talking about the clichéd manly man who throws back macro-brews, chases skirts and scratches himself in public.By “real” I don’t mean someone who has […]
Bowhunting in the heat
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36 degrees Celsius is not that hot but it makes sitting in a blind rather uncomfortable. Our hunting party hunted near Tolwe, a small town in Limpopo close to the Botswana boarder. The area is very hot, dry and without surface water, all the water is pumped into the watering holes via a borehole. As […]
Gorilla trekking, what an experience
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Following on from my last post, we landed in Kigali and being a PH with my own Cruiser, I was very happy to see our tour vehicle was a Cruiser 🙂 We headed off to Volcanoes National Park which was around a 3 hour drive to our hotel / lodge – Gorilla Mountain View Lodge. I […]
Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes National Park – Rwanda
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So tomorrow is am off to Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda on a gorilla trekking expedition. Not something I have done before but something I am really looking forward too. Mountain gorillas share 98% of our DNA and as such are very susceptible to catching human infections, particularly respiratory ones, but they don’t have our […]
As I start to make my way to the game camps
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The over cast wether and wind looked like rain was imminent. I checked what I could on our family farm as I had a off weekend from PH’ing. The maize has all be harvested and the disc is working to clear the lands. All my watering point are working well as there is no other […]
Controversy in the hunting industry
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On the wake of the controversial killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe comes another contentious hunting issue, this one over a “driven hunt” in South Africa last week that was even opposed by some hunters, though it was deemed legal by local authorities. Professional Hunting Association of South Africa released the below statement: Whats not […]
The day had finally arrived
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The day had finally arrived and we were at the airport on our way to the Kalahari. We booked our rifles in and awaited our boarding time. After boarding the plane our conversation turned to hunting. Very intrigued about how the hunting works in North America and chatting extensively to the client, I found out […]
Coming across amazing baobab trees
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Not the biggest baobab but its amazing to think they are thousands of years old… The largest one in the world has a circumference of over 108 feet and the only reason they have survived all these years is that they can’t be used for fire wood. If you get a chance, visit Sunland Baobab: http://www.southafrica.net/za/en/articles/entry/article-southafrica.net-sunland-baobab
Winter will just not relinquished its hold
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The wind started blowing at gale-force speeds and winter will just not relinquished its hold on us that easily. Four days until I leave on a lion hunt and this can only mean one thing – making sure my ammo is all loaded and perfect. Shooting a 470Nitro Express is not cheap but it is […]
