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May 19th Day 8 Final day. It doesn't look good. Wake up to fog. Cool and wet. Hmmm not what I wanted. We hung around for a while but as the fog lifted a little we headed out. Still looking for the other Bull Eland or any of the other Eland. We really put on the miles and miles and miles...

May 18th Day 7 So today we are headed out to a new property near Bedford. Brad had decided he wanted to add a Copper Springbok to his list. At the gate we are met by Knotty2. He knew the property and animals well. As soon as we drove in we started seeing animals. Red hartebeest, Impala, Kudu...

May 17th Day 6 After a good breakfast we headed out to the the Eland area about 20 minutes away. A lot of bush and creek bottoms with hills. As we drove around we only saw some Kudu and Warthog and Impala but no Eland. It was calm but overcast and everything was in the bush. Apparently Plains...

Back to day 4 I guess I don't keep the best notes for order. After returning from my Blue Duiker hunt we went for a cruise around some of Nicks property. Nick and I had earlier discussed both Brad and I wanting Eland. As I am already booked for next year we agreed Brad would get 1st chance on...

Day 5 Continued After leaving the Zebra property we drove about 1.5 hrs to the Concession where we would stay. The property is owned by Dylan and his family. Dylan is a big husky boy who also PH's for Nick at times. It is called the Aloe Grove Guest Farm. It is a mixture of farming, ranching...

May 16th Day 5 So this morning we were headed out to 3 consessions about 2.5 hrs North. I had asked Nick about a Cape Mtn. Zebra. We can import them to Canada. I have always thought they were a cool Zebra with the different stripe pattern and stripes down to the hooves. As we drove the land...

May 15th Day 4 Blue Duiker was a priority on my list. So we left around 6:30am for an area near Port Alford. This area has a very large and well managed Conservancy. Very few permits are allowed in a year. We were delayed by a day because of the rain 2 days earlier. I was told that the Blue...

May 14th Day 3 So the original plan was to head out for my Blue Duiker but that area had a bunch of rain and the Conservancy manager said we should wait for a day. So we headed back to the neighbor's in search of a Bushbuck for Brad. Finally no wind and bright sunshine. We started glassing same...

May 13th Day 2 Wind was howling again today. We were looking for a Nyala. As always Nick had a plan. Brad was trying to finish his Spiral Slam so we headed to a set of Valley's on a neighbors property. As neither Brad or I were hunting a package 2 on one worked well for us as we both had...

Prelude: Hunted with Nick @NICK BOWKER SAFARIS in 2022. My buddy and I did a cull hunt and added some trophies and my great did the Kudu and Gemsbok package. All successful and had a great time. I said I would be back. In 2023 Nick built a new Lodge and what a Lodge it is. Very modern and takes...