We flew out to the Bangwulu swamps this morning. Got up at 5 in the morning, got to the airport and got a flight on a little aircraft that took Richard Bell-Cross, Todd and myself about 1 hour and 20 minutes north of here, to near the Congo on a great big huge swamp flat called the Bangwulu swamps.

We were after black lechwe and tsessebe. They say there are 100,000 black lechwe there. When we landed, honest to goodness, I could probably count 10,000 of them there right from the airstrip as far as you could see. It was just black with them. It was unbelievable, spectacular, more than any caribou migration I've ever seen. We got in the vehicle and went through that herd, and they spread like a school of fish in front of us.

Tsessebe is the much harder one to find there, so we decided to hunt for them first. We landed at about 8:30 in the morning and it took us until about 3 in the afternoon before we even saw a tsessebe, but when we found them we found three herds with probably 1,000 animals all together. We got close enough, and I got a real nice one, and old male.

Then, because it was so late in the afternoon, we didn't have much time to hunt all of those millions of lechwe, but I still got a real nice one. Almost 25-inch horns and really gorgeous animals, really pretty.

The swamps were absolutely beautiful. We're off to Botswana tomorrow and should be hunting elephant in Botswana the next day. Global Hunting Resources, I can't say enogh about them. They have been fabulous in organizing this safari, and Richard Bell-Cross is a fabulous outfitter. We're going for eland and elephant next in Botswana!