We get to sleep in this morning we don't have to leave till 8:00 at breakfast Pete offers us the chance to go to a nice Seafood restaurant if we get the Warthog in time for lunch I tell him I'm not that excited about warthogs it wouldn't bother me if we don't get one. He stated that it's on my package and the owner doesn't like it if they don't get all the animal on the package. So we drive to the coast and I mean the coast the property has about 30 miles of coast line on it we pull up to the ranch house. The whole family are outside as the owner got a new drone he is playing with. It was fun meeting them all also watching them interact it would have been the same as if it was my family the boy's telling dad what he was doing wrong mom telling him how much that thing cost and to not crash it. LOl
We picked up the tracker and headed into the property. We start seeing all the usually animals we come around a corner and this guy is just staring at us he looked like he could stare holes through you
We start seeing some Warthogs but only Females with young Pete says not to worry this property is crawling with them. We stalk a few open fields
Still seeing the wrong ones. The wind comes up and temps drop the sighting of warthogs goes way down. So we head into the thicker bush where they can get out of the wind. we stalk up to a couple of water hole that are in the thick stuff only females. This place is crawling with Nyala.
Christine gets a stern warning about leaving the truck when we are stalking either she can come with us or stay put because of the cape buffalo.
we don't go a quarter mile when these 3 buffalos start chasing the truck.
We lose them and go about a half mile when the tracker from the property wants us to stop and stalk up to another water hole Pete tells him we aren't getting out of the truck with the buffs being so active and it's a good thing we would of walk into a heard of about 20 of them.
By the way i haven't told you how much I hate ostriches they have screwed up more stalks then anything else this week .
So now the wind is really blowing and we aren't seeing anything I tell pete I'm fine if I don't get a hog. so we start heading back to the Ranch house.
The view from it.
As we get close the tracker taps on the roof and there is a hog not far from it.
He says it's and old female they want out of the herd Pete makes him call the game manager to check to make sure it's ok to shoot it and we get the thumbs up. so we drive around the house and into the driveway and park we go through the garage and out the back door of it Pete sets up the sticks as he is doing this we get an audience one of the sons and his wife come out to watch If I pushed back with my foot it would touch the wall of the house. So she is about 100 yards down hill when i get on the sticks she is looking up at us with all the people milling around I have a good shot top the top of her head but I kind of liked the skull mount on the bar at Tuskers so I didn't want to take her there so I figured I'd sneak one in under her chin into her chest. At the shot I see something fly and she drops in her tracks. As we make our way down to her Pete starts telling me he is sorry as he could of sworn that she had 2 tusks. I tell him i think I might of shot it off. I forgot my rifle is sighted in at 200 making it about 2 inches high at 100 opps. We found the tusk but a skull mount was out of the question. This pig was the most decrepit thing i had ever seen she had no meat left on her her skin just kind od flow flat her head was the only thing big left about her.
The body is still attached to the head and you can't see it.
so we loaded her up said our goodbyes and headed into town for lunch.
Pete dropped us off at Ocean basket in Port Alfred told the wait staff to call him and let him know when we were done he was going home to see his wife and Grand daughter. He informed us to stay in the restaurant and not wander around because of crime. We got a table on the river and had a dozen oysters for an app. we split the Seafood platter for 2 which had prawns ,mussels, calamari 2 ways and fish plus chips and saffron rice. then we had dessert or should I call it Puddin I also had a couple of Rum and cokes the bill came to less then 40 dollars a meal like this would have been over 80 back home. Pete picks us up and we head back to Tuskers we don't have many pictures of tuskers as they were all on the Ipad that was stolen at the J burg airport. Tomorrow starts Christine's part of the vacation But as she and I are laying in bed she tells me she wants to come back and she has started a list of the animals she wants me to try for. Maybe she did like the hunting. The next installment will have to wait till next week as I have to hang drywall and plaster at her daughters house that is 4 hours away this weekend. Wish me luck