Lets see your journal

[johnnybow]

I am looking to purchase some type of journal for my African safari. I'm not looking to spend alot on one but wanted to get idea on what's out there for sale. Thanks

 

[Betterinthebush]

I liked this one from Walmart. I like top flip notebooks. I think it was $7 and a two pack of comfortable pens were $9

 

[K-man]

This is my hunting journal. A fathers day gift almost 20 years ago. It was a thoughtful gift and really seems appropriate. I've put a lot of personal feelings and details in there, sort of like a diary. Someone will have an interesting read after I'm gone.

 

[Hunt anything]

I picked this one up at a Books a Million back in 2014.
It’s almost full now after 5 safaris. I take it out once or twice a year and read it, the memories come flooding back.

 

[Pheroze]

I have gone through a few. I try to keep to the style Pepys used - short entries that give a view of the times. This is my latest one that was actually a gift. It took a few years to finish the previous one, and I just got to filling its pages over the last couple of years.

 

[Red Leg]

I do mine after the fact (though there is nothing wrong with contemporary notes). I use Shutterfly and the photos of the trip ( I always take several hundred) to create a photo journal of the adventure. My expectation is that the dead fauna on the wall will be a burden from which to be divested. But a photo journal of the adventures of a previous generation might just be a treasure.

 

[Drywaller44]

Well I was just going to take over a regular old notebook to journal in before my first safari but my wife surprised me with this before I left. I consider it one of the best gifts she ever got me because of the thought she put into it and the memories it now holds.

I’ve never been one to keep a journal but I’m so happy I did for that safari and plan on doing it for any future hunts. After a few days of hunting all day it’s easy to start forgetting some of the small details that make the hunt so special. It’s nice to look back on once in awhile and it’ll be something for my kids to remember me by once I’m gone.

 

[Mark458]

 

[Adam Stevens]

I do mine after the fact (though there is nothing wrong with contemporary notes). I use Shutterfly and the photos of the trip ( I always take several hundred) to create a photo journal of the adventure. My expectation is that the dead fauna on the wall will be a burden from which to be divested. But a photo journal of the adventures of a previous generation might just be a treasure.

Same for me, I pretty neat coffee table book.

But honestly once people read it or look, I end up putting the film on too! haaaaaaa

 

[Hunt anything]

I actually take a separate notebook with me and write in it daily and when I get home I’ll sit down and transcribe and elaborate on each daily entry. Sometimes it’s even hard to decipher some of my own notes so I try to write as clearly and neatly as I can on the final product.

I do need to dedicate a couple of rainy days to sit down and do the Shutterfly thing.