'Who Let the Dogs Out'

So after a weekend of ‘Visitas’, it’s a new week…..And Hooray!! The gerbils seem to have disappeared into thin air.

For a weekend of fishing, we did little more than get a tan. Although Friday afternoon was ‘hot’ and promised a wild weekend, things went into a bit of a tailspin after that. That’s not to say we didn’t catch, but trying to follow the boiling water of Furious Friday was a bit of a tough act and we even came off the water early yesterday afternoon out of despondency. I even tried a spot of drift-baiting over the weekend in the hope of enticing something into a bite. But alas!! It was an unpleasant reminder of why I don’t like bait fishing.

On an even more negative note! The Zimbabweans are back!! The only explanation I have for the things they get up to is an utter lack of intelligence or GDFD. Kids squealing and splashing on the edge of a sandbar at sunset accounts for the stupidity part and the carefree, 500dB soundtrack drifting 'a half-brick lob' in front of the boma for most of the day does the GDFD part. The saddest thing is that the day one of those kids disappears off the sandbar, they won't even notice through the beer-haze until it's time to go home. And then, they'll spend the next three weeks shooting any croc they see.

The ‘Elephant Express’ had quite the opposite this weekend. Friday and Saturday, the jumbos were as elusive as only elephants can be, but the weekend was rescued by a young bull who put on quite a show for them yesterday afternoon. I’ll see if I can get hold of a few of the photos, which are well worth a look.

Off to Lusaka again today to finalise things on both ‘jetty delivery’ and of course ‘simply wild’. Pretty excited about both.
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