A Safari In The Moyowosi And Masailand
Part II
As most of you know, we normally hunt with our old friends the Vincents. Or as Walter puts is Vincent Version 2! Alan arranged everything for us with TGT. For whom he works.
Ron has flown directly from the US to Dar, Roy and Rene did the same, and me and Walter followed them a day later from Dubai.
Walter at the Emirates First Class Lounge enjoying an ice cream. He said he needed the energy for the flight!
He ordered a snack as soon as he sat.
Lunchtime
I bought an ipad for Roy - as we are trying to get him onto computers, and so far without too much success. I put on some ebooks about Africa. He surprised us all by telling us that he had worked it all out.
He can now actually turn the page on the ipad! Walter, of course, was having a field day teasing him about it.
More food. More drinks. More nuts. More desert. Walter is in heaven.
He was ready to invite the girls on the flight to come on safari with us. When I vetoed that idea, he said "At least we can have someone to brighten our day instead of looking at Roy every morning!"
At Dar airport, meeting Ron, Roy, Rene, Alan and Wayne.
In our charter flight to camp. The comedy never stopped.
I got the seat in the cockpit
Everyone fell asleep
Waking up to inflight service. Walter will go nowhere without some food
We saw a herd of buffalo on an island in the swamp. We had to cross this wet area to get to them.
Walter found the termites absolutely fascinating. He stayed in that position for hours, watching them going about their business.
Watch Alan's foot, and Walter holding a bottle.
They were playing that game of jumping on the empty bottle to make the top shoot out like a bullet. They were having a contest who shoots furthest than the other. Roy was wondering what sort of nitwits play this game while our trackers were skinning our buffalo
Action man! He got himself an action camera, as you can see strapped to his head. And one video camera in his hand. He also needed some nourishment, hence the sandwich in his mouth.
We followed these bulls for about 12 ks, then managed to shoot this one. We called the truck and Walter came to join us.
Breakfast
Alan cutting out the fillets
Cutting the gall bladder from the liver of the buffalo
Buffalo tail ready for the pot
Recovered Walterhog bullet
Cleaning the knives and hands in the gut content
A fly I have never seen before
This is Bambam. Hessa has asked me to take him on safari, and he did a great job too.
Heere he is riding on the truck
Taking photos of birds
Having toast for breakfast
And a yoghurt
Filing a report early in the morning
Walter's snack
Bambam on a whistling thorn tree
Bambam taking a video of our buffalo being skinned
We followed this herd for quite a while
And this was the result
Bambam found a snail shell he took liking to.