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Wow you lucky guy....that is the trip of a lifetime....I am super jealous as I have always wanted to make that trip....and one of the best parts for me is that I can understand Africaans. Maybe one of these days, but I am running out of time. lol. Thank you so much for sharing your adventure.
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QUOTE (longfish @ Feb 03, 2025 - 10:13 am)
Wow you lucky guy....that is the trip of a lifetime....I am super jealous as I have always wanted to make that trip....and one of the best parts for me is that I can understand Africaans. Maybe one of these days, but I am running out of time. lol. Thank you so much for sharing your adventure.
Arnie
It’s a super trip for anyone. I saw people from 9-84 years of age enjoying wildlife on the safaris. If you can ride in a vehicle you can do it. Super friendly people and very safe.
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Nice photos and even better, the experiencing of those animals. Africa is for sure a bucket list thing to do. So much wildlife in the protected areas. I was in Kruger many years ago and wondered how long it would take to see the first large game....about 20 secs after entering the park...bunch of gazelles ran past the road. Then the huge animals started popping up. All amazing to see but what I found really amazing are some of the smaller things that people overlook...they are pretty cool if you look closely at them and see what they are doing. I think that tuna you caught is called a kawa-kawa...a member of the tuna family of course. As I remember, not that tasty...a bit too irony for my liking. But all those pelagic fish pull some hard. I had a "big" (to me) yellowfin tuna on once with a trolling handline that gave me the hardest shock when it hit because I was holding the line (it had a softer handle attached but that hit was out of this world) and then it burned the skin on my fingers and my thigh I think it was during a run that didn't seem to stop and using the gunwale of the boat to try to slow it down only left a nice groove...never landed that one (but I was very happy that the 100lb test line broke) and was lucky, I didn't have a loop of the line around a limb or something. No way I was ready for a fish like that.
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