The Last Safari

A Season of Discovery in Zimbabwe

"Zimbabwe is at a crossroads, and the welfare of its game and its people are inseparable. If you care about one you must see to the needs of the other."c.b.vanbuskirk

Photos from the book

Author at Home in Main Camp

Author and Dylan withelephant

Crowds close in at Kill

Crowds gather at wounded elephant

Peter and author with geese

Author with charging bull

Troy and Dylan with bull

Stuck in the river

Radio Kirk from river

River at Kalsiga

Huts at Kalsiga

Author receiving ticket

Rhodes grave

Shangoni Massacre Monument

.500 and .375 recovered solids

Author with camp donkeys

Author with Pension

Bennie

Troy with camp cat

Steven with grandaughter

My friend Peter

Scouts run to the gunfire

Author with snared buffalo

Egyptian goose

Drinking well at Zhomba

Burning the jess

Captured poachers

Poachers at the Zhomba police

Land Rover

Meat drying in game scouts village

Baboon and borrowed rifle

Camp at Mahenya

Cascading pools at Chilo Gorge

ticket at vet roadblock

Client hut at Jonsyl

Fire pit at Jonsyl

Author on hilltop at Jonsyl

Inside client hut at Jonsyl

Author with lion cubs

Shops Downstairs

Open terrain at Shangoni

Inside client hut at Shangoni

Dining hut at Shangoni

Dining hut at roadside

Fixing truck on roadside

Gold panning poachers

Water tank loaded on 7 ton truck

four birds with one shot

Dylan supervising lion blind

boomslang escapes from bar

Haze over Zhomba valley

Artifacts on cave floor

Grain bins in bushman cave

Tomerara carving walking stick

Dylan negotiation cow rental

Picture that almost got author arrested

Dylan with broken fan

Inside leopard blind

Sengwa River gorge

Dylan lowered into Gorge

Author lowered into Gorge

Village near Manyoni

Children scramble for candy

Dudley confers with local Chief

Impala caught in snare 1

Impala caught in snare 2

Impala caught in snare 3

Impala caught in snare 4

Impala caught in snare being released

Scouting for elephants

Snares found inside Sengwa

Delivering truck to local Chief

Sunnyboy contemplating accident

Caldon confers with local Police

Villagers help with elephant recovery

Snake in roof of hut

Wounded snake on floor

Author with last elephant of season

 

Additional Photos

 

Kirk Mason

Carl Mason with client and 8 foot leopard

Josea, Godfrey, !Namuli, game scout

Rifles stacked in front of buffalo ambush tunnel

Close up of buff cow in ambush

Author, Kirk and client with cow buff

DOWNLOAD VIDEO OF BUFFALO BEING WOUNDED AT THE RIVER

 

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