5 Days and Counting.

A lot of forum members know that I am planning my first and probably the last Safari to Africa when I posted the details in ’50 Days and Counting’ well, we are now down to the final 5 days.

I have taken note of all the information and suggestions that the forum members have posted and then made my decisions.

I want to especially thank 3 members in particular for their valuable help and guidance and I am the first to admit that I had a little ‘Pressure’ applied in the form of giving this ‘Old Fella’ a polite kick in you know where to get me off my butt and “Just do it” and stop procrastinating.

The paperwork was to say the least a bit of a nightmare possibly because I have never taken firearms overseas before but thanks to the many Emails that I sent to Tophet1 all seems to now be correct but until I am actually on the plane I wont fully believe there are no more problems.

I want to also thank both Fatboy404 and Ben who in their own ways helped convince me that it was still possible to have such an adventure and as you know, Fatboy404 took his dad who was sick so I felt if he could do it, so could I and Ben’s encouragement was the clincher.

As for the packing, all is now complete but I will have to ‘Buy’ an additional 10kg excess baggage but it is the least of the overall cost of the Safari.

A lot of members suggested that I also take a Nyala as the area that we will be hunting in is a ‘Top’ area for them so a request was passed onto Chris Troskie of CT Safaris when we spoke the other night at length. God bless Skype.

The temperatures in this area to say the least ‘Sucks’ with the most rain in 30 years, thunderstorms and snow and temperatures going from –3 to12 on a good day but luckily for me it is on the rise with today’s temperature going from 1 to 20 and seems to be going to stay around the –1 to 20 for my stay.

I have arranged Travel Insurance through the S.S.A.A. who goes through QBE when it comes to a higher value on firearms which allowed me to insure my 2 Custom CZ550’s known in my stories as “Father & Son” which are snugly packed in the Pelican 1750 case.

So that about tells the story to date, I am taking two Digital Cameras and plenty of batteries and S.D. Cards just in case one camera dies or something, so until later,

Cheers for now,

Jeff Gray

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