After a wonderful safari in the Save Conservancy with Guy Whittall last year, I was eager to return with my wife and son. My wife is not a huntress but loves natural history and the outdoors. My son hunts, majored in wildlife biology in college, but is at that stage of life where prudence dictates money be dedicated to his family and buying a house. Instead of waiting for a possible inheritance and finding that
I’ve been reading about hunting Africa for 30 years but started to consider it seriously when I retired a few years ago. Taking sufficient time off from work to travel, hunt, and recover from jet lag just didn’t seem possible, much less prudent with children in college. But I found Cape buffalo fascinating and kudu bulls extraordinary and the dream was always in mind. With retirement I’ve had more time to shoot and ended up
In August, 2017, I took my college-age son on a hunt in Zimbabwe. It was my fifth trip to Africa – fourth to Zimbabwe. It was his first. We hunted with Roger Whittall Safaris and stayed at the Tergwe Camp overlooking the Tergwe River in the Save Conservancy. Our PH was Guy Whittall. The Whittall family has lived in the area since the 1920s, and a very meaningful part of the trip was meeting Guy’s