Day 12: Back on the hunt...

Today's Monday started similarly to a Monday at our home: Instead of sleeping until 8:30 am, the alarm clock rang again promptly for the hunt at 6:15 am. Prepare breakfast and out into the hunting ground ...

With us were our two new guests, hunting guides Absalom and Cornelius, and, who would have thought, Jakob and I. First, to the shooting range so that the two guests could get to know the borrowed weapons. Then it was back on a safari through the savannah ... Just at the beginning, right by the side of the road, a single wildebeest - a perfect opportunity. It didn't take 2 minutes until it went bang and the wildebeest dropped to the ground - a direct hit. Motivated by such an early success (it was the first of 5 days and only 10:00 am), we continued with the wildebeest on the loading area through the 5,000 hectare hunting area where we were moving. The terrain is always interspersed with dried-up river beds, which place the highest demands on the car and driver when crossing. The deeper the river bed, the steeper the ramps leading from the height of the road to the 'bottom of the river'. It also becomes difficult when the stream is very narrow because then you need a car with such great ground clearance that it can drive on the descending and ascending ramp at the same time. Since the bottom of the river is usually sand, it can happen quickly that you get stuck. In most cases, a 4x4 drive with a low gear is sufficient, if that is not enough, then it just has to be pushed.

Nevertheless, we were back on the farm for lunch on time, in the meantime the second hunter had also shot his first animal - an impala.

In the afternoon we went on a safari again, but this time with two cars. While Team Cornelius returned without prey, with Jakob as the driver, in the evening we came across a magnificent kudu bull. A found and rare target ... Without hesitation, this one also lay motionless in the tall grass. Hunting guide Absalom took down the bull right there, as transportation was not possible due to its weight. The car would have been able to handle it without any problems, but we wouldn't have been able to load the bull onto the car in the first place. Without internal organs, the animal was almost 50kg lighter ... considering a stomach that could easily hold a toddler and lungs that are as big as my entire upper body, this should come as no surprise.

In the evening, we could toast the successful hunting day with delicious grilled meat (of course prepared by BBQ master Ole himself).