NitroX
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| 29/08/23 07:34 PM |
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Re: Your First African Hunting experience
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I'm feeling my age.
My first hunt was in 1971, in Kenya, with Ker, Downey and Selby. It lasted five weeks and I arranged to arrive several days in advance ... Snipped
I think most of us are jealous! You hunted at a time, probably at the end of the Kenyan period. Kenya was a Jewell of Africa safaris. A five week Kenyan safari sounds glorious. Which region or regions in Kenya did you hunt and visit? You've posted about it here and there. A dedicated thread would be great,ntelling your story. I'm sure all us "young folk" would love to read about your adventures and stories. Older guys have to tell and record their stories. Relive their experiences, and we like to hear them too.
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It was a wonderful five weeks and I took most of the plains game I was after, plus two elephants and
a rhino. The last two weeks were spent looking for a really big elephant and involved a lot of walking and coming back empty handed, but it all worked ouot in the end and I was anxious to go again the next year, to Tanzania, where I got among other things lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, greater kudu and sable in the course of three weeks in the Selous.
Wunderbar. I'd really like to hunt the Selous one day. I don't think it will be some 21 day safari alas. A week or , preferably two weeks. Probably a buffalo. Maybe. Probably need to start growing some illicit cash crop ... Ha ha.
I learned a smattering of Swahili words when in East Africa in 1989. Sometimes it works better even when dealing with locals speaking some English. It's cool too. I'd love to learn some, something "Out of Africa", the Golden Age. Probably pretty useless now though.
Funny, when hunting in Zimbabwe, the OH speaking in Sindebele mentioned "that was where we saw the leopard" (Chui, I think) and pointed. I asked him "how big was the leopard?" He asked startled, "Did you understand what I said?" Him wondering what else I might have understood when no doubt they were saying nasty things in the African language. Rude ffffers, stick it to them.