NAMIBIA: Off To Namibia

895E56B9-CC00-45BB-A800-6FA9324F918C.jpeg
 
On my way home folks. I will post a great deal when I get to Kansas City.
just wait as Paul Harvey use to say for “The Rest Of The Story”
 
He is such a tease. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
Looking forward to talking to you once you are back home!
 
So I made it through to Johannesburg and am in the slow lounge awaiting departure time of 11:10 pm on KLM through Amsterdam. Delta really made this difficult this trip but headed home.
I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Namibia with EINTRACHT JAGDSAFARIS operated by Pieter Delport.
He did an amazing job for me pre in two different areas of the country and multiple baits on his home turf. He is highly professional and honest. Staff at his cattle farm are very good especially the cook and the tracker!
I know from posts here some of you have hunted with Pieter and can back up what I am saying.
 
Be safe heading home! Looking forward to the last of your report!
 
Cannot wait to hear the whole story Charlie.
 
CFC94061-A10A-4858-B041-3D05F141CA78.jpeg
BF49D72F-24F2-4B1B-80A0-7B2F49810F5B.jpeg
Windhoek airport is under renovation which it needed for sure. It is clean on the departures side and staff are helpful. The arrivals hall is also being updated and customs is really easy.
Thought future first time visitors to Namibia would like a view of the airport.
 
L
View attachment 408301View attachment 408302Windhoek airport is under renovation which it needed for sure. It is clean on the departures side and staff are helpful. The arrivals hall is also being updated and customs is really easy.
Thought future first time visitors to Namibia would like a view of the airport.
Thank you. When might you be back home? You have all of us waiting anxiously ;)
 
KLM got me to Amsterdam and their business class service was good even with COVID restrictions. On the 11 hour flight I got about five hours of much needed sleep. As everyone might imagine Leopard hunting keeps one awake for 18-20 hours a day and the last seven days have been very hard hunting.
Shooting bait and meat for the farm workers keeps you busy as well.
I have to tell you folks Pieter Delport is all hunter even though he has this massive property to manage. If your going to hunt Leopard the PH absolutely has to know the area like the back of his hand and be in tune with the surrounding properties. Good relations with neighbors is a must because they help supply information on cat activity. Delport had all of this wired. Even in a second area well to the other side of the Capital. One that property there had been very good activity on different baits. A good male was there up to the week I left for Namibia and his pattern was to be away a few days and reappear. Wouldn’t you know when I got there he disappeared all together. We thought it was time for him to be back so we sat on his favorite bait sight but he was a no show. Interesting that four days late a female with a large cub came to that bait. The two of them hung on it until the broke the wire and proceeded to drag the bait away.
 
305622D6-6026-4559-ADF9-0F37F17975EA.jpeg
One picture in early April of nice cat that we had hoped to see at the other area.
 
53DED4A6-74CA-4447-834D-D1D98BB501DF.jpeg
E0A8D014-ED3A-447E-B377-7FD8FF64F71B.jpeg
Female and cub that pulled down a bait.
 
As I think I mentioned previously Pieter had several baits up in the home area. The Tom he had targeted seemed to have a regular pattern of coming to one particular bait tree but right before I got there he became erratic.
F4813773-91E9-47AF-99D7-3922621B16B5.jpeg
41D0667F-0AA0-4FE5-9504-21043C347864.jpeg
9482EDF9-A257-4C2A-8871-6F734A79630C.jpeg
 
We had the opportunity to use a structure that was built on the farm in the 1970s, but not used in the last 20 years, as our blind for the cat we had targeted. The small house had been built for a farm hand who’s job it was to walk several miles a day to check wind mills and water flow to cattle water stations. Our good fortune was that it gave us a great vantage point over the bait and kept the wind off of us. We would get to the blind at 3 to 3:30 in the afternoon and stay until the next morning until about 8 in hopes of catching the cat as the sun went down or the following morning when it came up.
1146869F-7180-4C8A-AF39-29F5417BF66A.jpeg
482DD383-A386-4CD3-A5E4-144D93E3AAC6.jpeg
E656E1E6-2E57-4911-9F5C-16366B0BC563.jpeg
 

Forum statistics

Threads
53,438
Messages
1,125,738
Members
92,301
Latest member
JeffreyOKe
 

 

 

Latest posts

Latest profile posts

thriller wrote on Bronkatowski1's profile.
Until this guy posts something on pay it forward free I would avoid him at all costs.
sgtsabai wrote on Buck51's profile.
If it hasn't sold by next week I might be interested. Stock would have to be changed along with some other items. I'm already having a 416 Rigby built so money is a tad bit tight.
The35Whelen wrote on MedRiver's profile.
Hey pal! I'll take all the .375 bullets if they're available.
Thanks!

Cody R. Sieber
@DERIAN KOEKEMOER SAFARIS is proud to say that we are members of PHASA.
WhatsApp Image 2024-03-09 at 08.11.01_9d17b32f.jpg
 
Top