This is Sophia, Graham's dog.
Ken with his duiker.
The two tin buildings you see are where women go to birth their babies.
This was the only three story hut I saw in the different villages.
Clive and Lou Hallamore with Ken. Lou used to fish BASS many moons ago. Fishing has taken us all over the world and made life long friends. Thanks to the little green fish..
The skull of Ken's leopard.
Porcupine quills we found.
Our clothes were so neatly ironed every day.
The Chief of the nearest village gets the trunk of every elephant killed by a hunter. He uses it for ceremonial reasons and to feed his village. The people also are able to travel to the kill site and get the rest of the meat from all animals taken.
As we drove up to the medical clinic this women had brought out her baby to be weighed on this scale outside.
Villagers from the fish camp were so happy to have the hippo meat.
It had been at least six months since the people in this camp had any kind of meat other than fish. They were so grateful. George said there would be nothing left of this hippo except for the stomach contents.
Me waiting for Ken to get back to the truck.
This tree was cut down to get the honey from it.
Hippo meat hanging from the fence to dry for the people at camp to take home for their famlies.
Ken made a good shot on this 6000 pound hippo.
At some point in this hippo's life he had bit his tongue. OUCH!
Hippo skin.
Two feet.
The middle part of the skin of the hippo will be made into a whip.
Pulling the hippo from the water was a sight to see.
The perfect shot.
Once the teeth are taken out of the skull the longest tooth will measure approximately 29 inches long.
WOW!!!
A rope was tied to the hippo's foot and a group of hungry families pulled hippo from the water.
Women stood with axes and knives in hand along with feed bags, or buckets, anything to put the meat into.
It was this small boat and the men in it that pulled 6000 pounds to the edge of the water. Row, row, row your boat.
They were anxious and so grateful to have the meat.
Women and children took part in making sure the meat and bones would not go to waste. They laughed and sang. They were having fun.
A young boy holding a knife.
A beautiful lizard.
After Ken shot his bow with great success, it stirred the curiosity of the trackers. Absent tried to pull back Ken's bow but couldn't without Ian's help.
The guys stalking and watching the hippo. In the background you can see a thatched lookout tower to watch for elephants.
Eating lunch under a shade tree and waiting for the hippo to float. It took 1 hr and 37 minutes for the animal to surface for retrieval.
Tse Tse flys are a lot like our horse flies. They will bite the crap out of you, or at least me. After they would bite me, I would swell and then it would get all red and I would run fever. I found that what worked the best to keep them from biting me was "skin so soft" by Avon.
One of the homes from the village.
Cape buffalo skulls waiting to be shipped.
It was after lunch when everyone goes back to their room for a nap that I discovered this 3 foot long bush snake. It was lying on the ledge in our bathroom. Ken was lying down on his bed. I started to wake Ken to tell him but the snake ducked into a hole. I looked over at Ken when the snake popped up on the ledge beside Ken's bed. I woke him and he jumped to his feet, grabbed his shoes and tried to get the snake outside. The snake is outside now and we think gone. The next thing we know, he has returned above my bed hanging off my mosquito net. Ken's yelling to me "he's above your head". I'm out of there now. So from the door I watched the snake go up and over our wall to the bathroom. Okay now I'm pretty jumpy. So I'm standing at the door to our room telling the world I am NOT going back into this room. When the snake dropped on my head....I SCREAMED, Ken was asking me if the snake has bitten me. I'm yelling NO. Now Ian has come down to our room and is telling us that the snake wants either the lizards the two frogs that live in our room. Fifteen minutes later we went back to our room knowing the snake would be there and the snake was in the doorway with two little frog legs sticking out its mouth. WE never saw the snake again.
This is a bug they called the Harare Ferrari. He was very fast on his feet.
Grain bins out in the fields to store the crops once harvested.
The watch tower is where someone will set to watch for elephants. A herd of elephants will come into the villagers' fields once they are ready to be harvested and in minutes eat and destroy the entire field.
A woman hoeing her field and preparing for planting.
You can see behind her a fence made of thatch grass to try and keep the elephants out.
This is Sophia, Graham's dog.
Ken with his duiker.
The two tin buildings you see are where women go to birth their babies.
This was the only three story hut I saw in the different villages.
Clive and Lou Hallamore with Ken. Lou used to fish BASS many moons ago. Fishing has taken us all over the world and made life long friends. Thanks to the little green fish..
The skull of Ken's leopard.
Porcupine quills we found.
Our clothes were so neatly ironed every day.
The Chief of the nearest village gets the trunk of every elephant killed by a hunter. He uses it for ceremonial reasons and to feed his village. The people also are able to travel to the kill site and get the rest of the meat from all animals taken.
As we drove up to the medical clinic this women had brought out her baby to be weighed on this scale outside.
Villagers from the fish camp were so happy to have the hippo meat.
It had been at least six months since the people in this camp had any kind of meat other than fish. They were so grateful. George said there would be nothing left of this hippo except for the stomach contents.
Me waiting for Ken to get back to the truck.
This tree was cut down to get the honey from it.
Hippo meat hanging from the fence to dry for the people at camp to take home for their famlies.
Ken made a good shot on this 6000 pound hippo.
At some point in this hippo's life he had bit his tongue. OUCH!
Hippo skin.
Two feet.
The middle part of the skin of the hippo will be made into a whip.
Pulling the hippo from the water was a sight to see.
The perfect shot.
Once the teeth are taken out of the skull the longest tooth will measure approximately 29 inches long.
WOW!!!
A rope was tied to the hippo's foot and a group of hungry families pulled hippo from the water.
Women stood with axes and knives in hand along with feed bags, or buckets, anything to put the meat into.
It was this small boat and the men in it that pulled 6000 pounds to the edge of the water. Row, row, row your boat.
They were anxious and so grateful to have the meat.
Women and children took part in making sure the meat and bones would not go to waste. They laughed and sang. They were having fun.
A young boy holding a knife.
A beautiful lizard.
After Ken shot his bow with great success, it stirred the curiosity of the trackers. Absent tried to pull back Ken's bow but couldn't without Ian's help.
The guys stalking and watching the hippo. In the background you can see a thatched lookout tower to watch for elephants.
Eating lunch under a shade tree and waiting for the hippo to float. It took 1 hr and 37 minutes for the animal to surface for retrieval.
Tse Tse flys are a lot like our horse flies. They will bite the crap out of you, or at least me. After they would bite me, I would swell and then it would get all red and I would run fever. I found that what worked the best to keep them from biting me was "skin so soft" by Avon.
One of the homes from the village.
Cape buffalo skulls waiting to be shipped.
It was after lunch when everyone goes back to their room for a nap that I discovered this 3 foot long bush snake. It was lying on the ledge in our bathroom. Ken was lying down on his bed. I started to wake Ken to tell him but the snake ducked into a hole. I looked over at Ken when the snake popped up on the ledge beside Ken's bed. I woke him and he jumped to his feet, grabbed his shoes and tried to get the snake outside. The snake is outside now and we think gone. The next thing we know, he has returned above my bed hanging off my mosquito net. Ken's yelling to me "he's above your head". I'm out of there now. So from the door I watched the snake go up and over our wall to the bathroom. Okay now I'm pretty jumpy. So I'm standing at the door to our room telling the world I am NOT going back into this room. When the snake dropped on my head....I SCREAMED, Ken was asking me if the snake has bitten me. I'm yelling NO. Now Ian has come down to our room and is telling us that the snake wants either the lizards the two frogs that live in our room. Fifteen minutes later we went back to our room knowing the snake would be there and the snake was in the doorway with two little frog legs sticking out its mouth. WE never saw the snake again.
This is a bug they called the Harare Ferrari. He was very fast on his feet.
Grain bins out in the fields to store the crops once harvested.
The watch tower is where someone will set to watch for elephants. A herd of elephants will come into the villagers' fields once they are ready to be harvested and in minutes eat and destroy the entire field.
A woman hoeing her field and preparing for planting.
You can see behind her a fence made of thatch grass to try and keep the elephants out. 
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WOW!!!!! what a wonderful time, your pictures are awesome. Thanks for sharing
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