Jim's Blog
From Elephants ... to Rhinos, With Bow!
I'm standing under the Milky Way in South Africa in the Eastern Cape not too far from the Indian Ocean. We left Botswana yesterday afternoon and drove across the border into Zimbabwe. We drove to Victoria Falls, the falls that David Livingstone, the famous explorer, found. We stayed at a place called The Ultimate Lodge in Victoria Falls. Really fantastic place; had a really enjoyable evening listening to stories and hearing what it's like in Zimbabwe nowadays.
They set up in the morning for us to go to Victoria Falls itself, so Todd and I went there. We caught the sunrise over Victoria Falls, spectacular one of the seven natural wonders of the world. We got good photos, good video, then we went to the market there. All kinds of treasures, some of the best carvings I've ever seen anywhere and for really good prices. I bought a couple of things, of course, old traditional dance costumes old, really cool, then we booted back to catch the airplane to Johannesburg and then from there to Port Elizabeth. I didn't have the right paperwork because we drove across the border, and they were giving me major hassles, but eventually we managed to get through.
We were picked up by the Tam Safari people, set up by Global Hunting Resources. Fantastic outfitters down here. They have several high-fenced ranches, but also many low-fenced as well. I'm going after rhino with my Alpine bow and arrow (arrow tipped with drugged dart so that rhino is not killed). I haven't used a bow in 20 years, so there are all kinds of new-fangled things that I've never seen in my life. So I'm going to practice tomorrow morning, and then we're going to go and try to dart one of these rhinos. They have both black rhinos and white rhinos.
In fact, Pam Zaitz from SHE Safari was here a few weeks ago and she darted a rhino. I'm looking forward to this!




