The Hunt that was not to be - he who dares wins.

[Treeman]

Its week two of rain about everyday, it is just raining down here. Had no rain like twice in 8 - 9 days. Lost 7 days of work this month, we need rain, I wanna hunt - work !

A friend and I decided we would hunt this week end, if the rain stopped - we both sure it would, it did not. We checked the weather hourly, seeing possibilities that were not there and saying things like "we can take a big plastic sheet to sit under at look out spots" - We can move between rains.
Thursday was blanket rain 300 km any direction, Friday was supposed to rain all day but in reality it only rained if you went outside.
Friday nite calls were made and weather forecast revisited, we tried every weather station known till we found one that said almost no rain saturday - finally a weather forecast that told us what we wanted to hear, "almost no rain Saturday" brilliant. Phone calls were made and things like " a little rain never hurt anyone" were spoken back and forth.

Perfect 04:00 we leave tomorrow. 

VID-20231014-WA0002 by David Frank Allen, on Flickr

Ya, you know you doing Bravo Male stuff when you got 170 km to go and you wet before pulling out driveway.
And then the mist.
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Fokkit Bro ! it was kak!, had my child in bakkie with me and it was bad, I actually regretted my Bravado in the pass's - had my kid with me, this was stupid, fokket boet the road was kak.

We got to the farm and it was not so bad, just 4x4 from tar to camp site, no issues, just walking speed for 2 hours - never looked down a mountain path before with so much doubt.
The rain stopped, and we unpacked, made a fire and set up camp. We ate our food, drank beer and counted 12 satellites in 11 minutes. I have never yet been on land that had zero indication of where and when you were in time. No  power lines, no telephone lines, not even lights in the distance, we were in the year 1735 to all visual input data.
This was beyond amazing, not even in the Kruger Park have I been so out of contact a place.

We finished off and it started raining - words were exchanged in regard to tomorrow's weather and we all agreed it would be a good day tomorrow, that one weather channel said so, the other 7 channels were all wrong.

Woke up to this.
VID-20231015-WA0000 by David Frank Allen, on Flickr

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But also
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And

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It was really packed with pleasures day
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we walked faaaaar
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And then as usual
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IMG-20231015-WA0026 by David Frank Allen, on Flickr

I am tired, my tired is tired. I have hogs on ice and a week of work ahead.
                                IT WAS GOOD TO BE ALIVE

[Tripodmvr]

I like. Wish I could get out on a shoot.

[DaavG]

Very lekker Treeman! Well done for the ffort!