I do not know about orange overalls and white-tailed deer and freezing my tootsies lake at dawn. So in a blind waiting for the big cat, the stench of death hung in the zebra baobab tree are curling. At that time, the hunters see the animals more than people, and have never killed animals more than the law allows. The fact is that they have killed more than poaching of animals.
Once upon a time in Eastern Africa
If you had a license for everything you have to kill.If these licenses are limited, and were monitored. No one dared to slaughter the way to do poachers today. In those days, was the British and Kenya accelerator poachers who killed the poor fish. Africans have had to eat the utmost respect for animals and just killed. The Masai do not hunt animals because they do not eat meat. Their cattle were their only wealth. They lived on the blood from large veins in the neck of the animal, mixed with milk from cows. Only the white manhad to have his trophies.
Long after Karen Blixen who wrote "Out of Africa, long after Hemingway Safari, Joy Adamson and Elsa the lion made headlines in" Born Free ", Officials, as it seemed to work, which still clean, flowering Jacaranda City Nairobi, a very quiet place livable. Today does not walk alone at night. Today, the government has a long proud nomadic Masai in huts where they have lost their dignity, strength, and are forced to subsistence agriculture.A leopard can change its spots?
The Kenyan, who once knew me
This saves time and space have vanished like a dream forever. In my dream my friends are Kikuyu, native African and the privilege of second-and third-generation white Kenyan, coming from Great Britain and other European countries. If you're like me, you learn Swahili. A white boy of fifteen Kenya Kikuyu learns from his companions, like the tip of the triangular ears of a lion in the tall grass lazy blonde deep spot where the big cats. WhenThe boy, his parents, he grows coffee and tea plantations in the Highlands heritage, and areas of low dry sisal plantation. Has a stable of horses on the track in Nairobi, and you learn to hunt. Some of my best friends are hunters wealthy professionals who take tourists on safari. I'm going on vacation the day as a guest. This is the beginning of my education African safari, while hunting in the desert, your tent is comfortable with a hot bath at the end with the bodiesthe day, brought to you in a big tub of steaming water.
In contrast with the character possessed by Clint Eastwood played in "White Hunter, Black Heart consider" professional hunters for the label and the most severe human approach to hunting big game. What kind of knowledge is better than he knows himself, his habits, what time of day you hunt, until, before eating, if a lioness is pregnant or can wait for a rogue elephant is dangerous. By far the most important thing I learnedis the love and the spirit of these wonderful animals must be respected. I do not know from a professional hunter who does not grieve for every species. Most of the tourists who come for the excitement of killing and applause at the Long Bar of the Hotel Norfolk. But no thanks for the Nobel laureate who has sacrificed his life to hang on a chimney of a rich man.
The romance of the professional hunter
Have you seen the movie, read books actresses fall in love with the professionalHunters. Edgar de Bono, one of the best professional hunters in Kenya and my friend was the epitome of the picture and left a trail of broken hearts.
I had my own heart beating, so great was Edgar Macho with northern Italian blue eyes, my teacher, not my lover. He taught me the fine line between the port from a hunt, and sport is an ego trip. Taught me to use various types of ammunition and guns, and hunting areas in Africa. There is so much to know, and Iforget the most, because I am not a hunter. In addition to single-versus double trigger and double rifles, there are different sizes and dimensions of weapons, as the great 450 magnum, the sheer weight will kill you. E 'for the so-called Big Five: elephants, rhinos, hippos, buffaloes, lions, and is meant. Edgar gave me early with half old wore the light is not 375, not too light, too heavy and recoil, it has need, let me massage therapy. knowledge there is nothing worse than aHunter Hobby wounds an animal, I never even fired a pet hyena, and I do not know how hyenas.
The Good Old Shotgun
However, I, with a gunshot to 12 for poultry. One day I had my gun three pharaoh who pop their heads up and down, kept in a grove. Tricky and fast critters were so close, I thought I had at least one of them, which I did. The bird was one of many dishes in the dining tent that night, with the professionalism of our chefs prepared and served in Africa, theknow what to do with the Grand Marnier.
Some of my favorite things
Camping at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro before global warming, when the snow was on top. Rise. Sunrises and sunsets you can ruin your life. Cold nights under the stars as big as African diamonds. Gabfests Campfire on the flocks we walked next to this day on board Landrover Edgars miles across the savannah. Lion in the night, as I ran to the bathroom (British for toilet) in the dark. The first words I learned inSwahili: Jambo Memsaab / Bwana. Memoirs of an Africa that I once knew.
You can always go on a safari in Africa to shoot with a camera in the forest and have the experience of their lives. Go now, before it all just a dream.
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