Category: Wildlife
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5 Years Ago: Kadizora Camp
Monwana Lodge at Thornybush was a great way to start our safari adventure. They had all of the big five African game animals, and we had closeup experiences with them all. That’s the benefit of a game reserve that’s relatively compact in size. The Okavango Delta, our next stop, is much more vast and open.…
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5 Years Ago: Monwana Lodge
For a long time, my favorite fishing hat was a black ball cap with the California Republic bear on it that I bought at the Laguna Seca racetrack sometime in the mid-2000s. I’d forgotten to bring a hat to work, you see, so was forced to pay track-side concession prices to keep my pale bald…
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Five Years Ago: Revisiting an African Adventure
I realized the other day that five years has passed since Mom invited me to go with her on an African adventure. It was just about as amazing as you might imagine, just from those two words, “African adventure”. Back then, I posted photos to Instagram at the end of each day’s exploration, but Instagram…
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Exiting Montana…
…Without winning the big fish lottery, AKA, fishing the Madison River in the Fall for lake-run browns and rainbows. This year, I picked a losing ticket. I caught a few nice average fish, but nothing special. Last year wasn’t great, but it felt better than this year. A guy I chatted with at Barnes Hole…
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October in Montana
Well, the ten days that I was based out of Bakers Hole campground was kind of a letdown, as far as the fishing goes. I think in total I netted five adult fish, with the last day accounting for two of them. My Fall visit in previous years have always produced at least one fish…
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The Long Draw Cutthroat
A few years ago, I went exploring with the RV up near the top of Cameron Pass, Colorado, where the scuttlebutt said that there were dispersed campsites available along Long Draw reservoir and the creek that fed it. About 12 miles away from the blacktop on a heavily washboarded dirt road, I found the only…
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Gator!
December 6 at the DuPuis wildlife management area in South Florida… I cast my line over this little gator, accidentally hooking it in the leg. It squawked like crazy while I extracted the hook. After I freed it and looked up, its Momma was eyeballing me from about ten feet away.
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Rhinos
A highlight of my visit to Africa in October last year with Mom. Two rhinoceroses taking a stroll down the dirt track we were turning onto, at Thornybush, South Africa. Thanks Monwana Lodge!
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