Day 3 of the Namibia 2019 hunt

Ben, Jim, Jorn, BH 6, Ben P.H., Sigi, Dax, CLM

Thursday April 11, 2019

Up at 6:15 a.m.  Very tired.  Jet lag plus the long walk yesterday plus the 109 years under my belt = very tired.  Breakfast is cold cuts, cheeses, delicious breads with plumb jelly.  Out to hunt with Jorn and Dax and Tobis.  We went all around at slow speed in the truck looking for some game.  We went on a long walk about 1.7 miles.  We saw some game but nothing spectacular.  Some smaller wart hogs, female kudu, and a few oryx far off.  No shots fired so we came back for lunch.  The neighbor to the south, Uncle Joe to Jule, has hired a helicopter firm to catch 150 oryx live for transport.  The helicopter is supposed to just fly over Joe’s place but the pilot is all over Farm Garib rounding up game.   This runs them off where we can hunt.  Crap-O-Rama!  We saw dozens of oryx and springbok running off Farm Garib because of the noise of the helicopter.  The animals were running toward Joe’s place.  I photograph and video the springbok movements.
   
Lunch is springbok fillet mignon wrapped in bacon.  It was amazingly good.  Green salad, brown bread, brown gravy made for a truly great meal.  Who said hunting food is just subsistence eating.  Dessert is chocolate pudding. 

Sigi, Ken, Jim, Ben (Jim‘s son), went up to Reiner’s place about 1.5 hours drive away.  They are looking for zebra, black wildebeest, and large warthogs.  I hope they do well as Dax and I are headed there tomorrow.

CLM needed to rest this afternoon so sent Dax and Jorn out alone to hunt.  I wrote in this journal and had a cold drink with ICE.  I need to charge up for tomorrow.  Pretty sure we are in for a big walking day tomorrow.