Firebird
AH legend
Wind is generally poor for big game hunting. We were “home” from Kramberg but the animals were hunkered down out of the wind. Wik and I had planned to hunt nyala-so after lunch and a short nap, we loaded the truck with delicious oranges, valiant trackers, one cameraman and some Hope and faith. I have hunted nyala with Wik before and we have done quite well. Nyala are plentiful on the property, one of the real pearls in a sea of thorns and spekboom. Wik determined to stay high and glass into the protected valleys. It’s a good plan but it blew standing in the wind with watery eyes and exposed fingers. Climbing one road Wik made one of the best discoveries I’ve ever had at Woodvale-a francolin! It posed wonderfully in the road for pictures for a mjnute or two and then exited stage left. Someday I need to hunt them!
I could have been finished then and been a happy man. The next plateau ledge was more calm and the valley seems void of wind. Kudu, eland, warthog, impala-all out feeding for the evening. I spotted it first and when I looked for Wik to show him the small nyala I had found (it was in plain sight, standing in a road) Wik was waving like crazy for me to join him. Dean and myself hustled over to Wik and he got me right on the sticks. Deep and very downward was a young kudu bull and a bigger nyala bull posing majestically above the morass of brush in the creek bottoms
Bottom.
I could have been finished then and been a happy man. The next plateau ledge was more calm and the valley seems void of wind. Kudu, eland, warthog, impala-all out feeding for the evening. I spotted it first and when I looked for Wik to show him the small nyala I had found (it was in plain sight, standing in a road) Wik was waving like crazy for me to join him. Dean and myself hustled over to Wik and he got me right on the sticks. Deep and very downward was a young kudu bull and a bigger nyala bull posing majestically above the morass of brush in the creek bottoms
Bottom.
