I can not be any more jealous. That picutre right there at the beach. Land Rover should be using that for advertising. Abosolutely perfect.

 

So did you finally have another vehicle come get you out or did you wait until the ground dried and dug yourself to freedom?

 

I'm betting that is a tracking collar on the lioness.

 

Too true, but this lioness had cubs that were hidden in some bushes out of shot. She would keep them away from the pride until she would feel it's safe to reintroduce them back into the pride.
So she's the only one looking after the cubs and would have to kill by herself to feed the kids. She would have made a calculated decision to go for this young buf, who would not have put up much of a fight that might risk injuring herself.

Yes it is .

The (beach) is Lake Malawi a fresh water lake and is huge, it does look like the ocean and I agree it is perfect expert you do have to look out for crocs and hippo if your in the water.

 

I know this should be an African JK thread, but it looks like alot of you guys would like to see more African wildlife pics, so I will post more pics.
Interesting that those of us who love Wranglers ( like me) also seem to have a soft spot for old Land Rovers and Defenders. So I will try to post pics of some of my African Landys until my JK finally gets here. Is that OK?





















I have done a repost , hope you can see them now.

 

Not all of them are working for me. :(

 

Great pics! I would love to get over there one day and be able to observe the wildlife

 

Black08X -
Plan a trip down to the Baja Penninsula. You can drive/ camp on the beach and listen to the sea lions, etc. Great snorkeling. Watch the tide on the east coast - whole lagoons will appear and disappear on you.

By the way, I went to high school at J. O. Johnson on the north side of town. I've heard it's changed alot in the last 25 years and most of my old trails are now subdivisions. I miss the bass fishing. There are a couple of trails by Wheeler Wildlife Res. that allow you to drive right to the water and camp/fish in the trees. Great view of the bridge to Decateur.

As for Africa,
I dated a South African living in Southern California. Very nice family. I enjoyed celebrating the holidays with them (Christmas crackers, etc.). I think she also spent some time in Rwanda.

 

Well it was a bit of both, we dug out a channel to drain out the water and went back to the main track and left two notes on a camping stool with our position on it . This was way back in the day when we did not have GPS or SAT phones. We did try to signal aircraft using a mirror but that did not work.
We would try to dig during the coolest parts of the day and rest when it was hot.
After a week a 4x4 did find our note and came out to help us.

Man it was quite an experience even trying to make it back to civilization., the Landy caught on fire dew to the high grass seeds on the track. We managed to put it out with my fire extinguisher ( to this day I always carry two in my 4x4s). I also discovered that I had tick bite fever and was not in good shape. The last straw was just as we were about to enter a small town we hit a military road block. It was hell, next thing I knew I was face down in the dirt with an AK47 to my head and asked "why did I not have my seatbelt on?"
I had to keep cool and manged to talk myself out of a very bad situation.
This was in the bad old days and I have never experienced anything like that since.

I love traveling in Africa now, but I will never forget that experience.

This is a pic of us stuck.

This is one of the notes that we put out non the main track.

A sketch drawing of us stuck.

 

This will be the third human I've suckered into being lunch this week by acting like I'm the cute little photogenic crocodile. Just a little closer buddy. Yep, I'm the friendly Izod logo, nothing to worry about. LOL